Word: yellow
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Boston's subway system doesn't have a yellow line. Neither do most hockey teams...
...aboard Air Force Two. The Vice President's plane is less a floating palace than a flying Motel 6 -- frayed brown seats, rickety mustard- yellow baggage racks. Bush and staff munch on popcorn and the Vice President's favorite snack food: fried pork rinds with Tabasco sauce. On the ritzier press plane, reporters dine on whitefish, smoked salmon and crabmeat...
Still, the high purpose that characterized the anti-Marcos uprising has dissipated. In 1986, behind the yellow, dusty walls of a local military camp, Aquino broke ground for a "People's Church" to commemorate the revolution. The only thing built, however, was a billboard announcing the coming construction. Months passed. Coups were attempted and failed. Soot gathered on the neglected, peeling panel. In the end, vandals defaced it, and a strong wind knocked it down...
...dramatically suggesting that the price is too high for a small beleaguered democracy, Grossman became the new focus of an ongoing wrangle. To hard-liners he was just another yefei-nefesh, or beautiful soul, the Hebrew equivalent of "bleeding heart." For better and for worse, this is true. The Yellow Wind puts a human face on the enemy whom many Israelis would rather not look at. Grossman talks to a member of the outlaw militant Jewish underground in the West Bank town of Ofra, and concludes, "He does not want to think even for a minute about the situation...
...Yellow Wind vividly portrays Jewish- Arab tensions in the West Bank. -- Coming of age in World War II. -- An investor' s lament...