Word: yellowing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...black man accused of killing a white police officer. Hays and a friend snatched 19-year-old Michael Donald off a Mobile street, then beat, cut, strangled and strung him up. Sixteen years later, with Donald's older brother Stanley watching intently, Hays was strapped into the bright yellow chair inside Holman Prison in Atmore, Ala. Asked for his last words, a repentant Hays mouthed "I love you" to Stanley Donald, made a thumbs-up sign and died when the first high-voltage cycle slammed into his brain...
...execution chambers, even the most antiseptic, stand as silent, smirking answers that blanch the irony out of St. Paul's question "O Death, where is thy sting?" Death comes in several varieties. It can be incongruously vibrant like "Yellow Mama," the electric chair in Alabama used last week for the execution of ex-Klansman Henry Hays. Or death can have the rustic decrepitude of the gallows in Delaware, which remains in operation. But on every chamber hang the words inscribed in Dante's Inferno: "Abandon all hope you who enter here...
...rhapsody of textures: of the carpets, the wheat fields, the clouds, the streams in which the peasants dip their dyes. Color is almost a religion here. A charismatic teacher points out a classroom window to "the red of a poppy, the blue of God's heaven, the yellow of the sun that lights up the world," and these colors magically appear on his hands, as if he'd dipped them in a world still damp from Nature's first spectacular paint job. "Life is color!" he shouts, as exuberant as an Iranian Zorba. "Love is color!" The movie screen becomes...
Roast chicken, covered in the juice from a squeezed lemon, generously garnished with tarragon, thyme, salt, pepper and a touch of crushed garlic, roasted potatoes, Bass Ale; linguine with pesto; leafy Romaine lettuce, green, red, yellow peppers, carrots, tomatoes exploding with color and taste covered in a homemade balsamic vinaigrette; steak with inserted garlic cloves, New Jersey corn on the cob, fried and sauteed mushrooms and onions, baked potatoes--dinner for Chrissakes...
...kept in the bottom drawer of his desk, "Jeremy's Yellow Bars," a bar graph showing the shrinking deficit, was a well-known visual aid to Knowles' struggle to curb the debt...