Word: yellowing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Joni is a blue-eyed, freckle-faced girl with straight, waist-long blonde hair who doesn't seem to care about her new wealth. She lives in a ramshackle house in Los Angeles' Laurel Canyon, with secondhand trappings-brown velvet rockers, black and yellow crocheted throws, a giant antique wooden pig, an old piano, a doll, stained-glass windowpanes and a sewing machine on which she makes her own dresses...
...combines business with pleasure. Professionally, he is a biologist, stationed in Hawaii, bird watching for the U.S. Department of the Interior. It therefore gave him special pleasure when, while hacking his way through an island rain forest in search of rare biological specimens, he spotted a bird with a "yellow posterior and a peculiar, sickle-shaped bill." The bird was the Mauinukupuu (pronounced noo-koo-poo-oo), which had been considered extinct since...
...most dramatic movie sequences was an astronaut's-eye view of reentry, looking up through a window while the spacecraft plunged through the atmosphere, blunt end down. An orange-yellow glow filled the window as the heat shield became incandescent. Fiery chunks torn from the shield hurtled past the window. Shroud lines could be seen whipping in the wind, and viewers could almost feel the jerk as the or-ange-and-white main chutes opened, abruptly slowing the descent. The scene ended with the sky and clouds gyrating sickeningly, and the colorful chutes appearing and disappearing in the window...
...Third Avenue, the other in the woods near Provincetown, on Cape Cod. The Motherwells go to Provincetown in the summer, to be joined by Motherwell's two daughters by a previous marriage, Jeannie, 16, and Lise, 14. The landscapes done on Cape Cod sing with the oceanic blues, yellow sands, the faded greens of marsh grass, and the savage reds of beach plums...
Actually, "Only Berkeley and Ann Arbor of American college towns can match the vitality of life to be discovered in Harvard Square." Berkeley, maybe, but Ann Arbor? Ann Arbor has two movie theaters that alternate showing the "Sound of Music" and 13 drugstores selling blue and yellow Michigan banners across the counter at the soda fountain...