Word: yellowing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Homa or Jabal Abu Ghneim? Two weeks ago, the empty hillside on the southern reaches of Jerusalem was just an obscure plot with a Hebrew name and an Arabic one. But as big yellow bulldozers began to claim the hill for Jewish houses, Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was converting the landscape into a perilous flash point. Palestinians hurled stones, Israeli soldiers fired tear gas, Arab leaders issued harsh denunciations, and every single friend of Israel's disapproved. Defying them all, knowing he risked far more serious violence, Netanyahu ordered the bulldozers to dig on. Now history will decide...
...started and the fog of war rolled in, Oaks' private computer network proved as difficult to reach as the real America Online. Early in the action, his first humvee was taken out by an armored personnel carrier hiding behind a ridge. (The direct hit was indicated by a flashing yellow roof light and a humiliating siren crying Whoop! Whoop! Whoop!) When Oaks transferred operations to a second vehicle, electronic disaster struck. "Every computer I've got has crashed!" he shouted three hours into the battle, and reached for the paper maps, acetate overlays and colored markers that have been...
...someday he would like to jump again for fun someday. Tuesday, the 72-year-old former President did just that, taking the plunge from 12,500 feet above the Army Yuma Proving ground. Two watchful jump masters kept the President secured to a harness until he deployed his orange, yellow and blue parachute at 4,500 feet. While eight other parachutists also made the jump, Bush was the undisputed star of the show. Flashing a thumbs-up at reporters, Bush, the only U.S. President to parachute out of an airplane, earned high marks from his White House successor. Asked...
...London, Algiers or Boston." It was "1,600 miles long, 1,600 miles wide and 1,600 miles high." Once there, "we are going to sit around the fireplace and have parties, and the angels will wait on us, and we'll drive down the golden streets in a yellow Cadillac convertible." Graham went on to a magnificent career, but he dropped the Cadillac, which nonetheless haunted him for years. Late 20th century America had little patience for detailed, literal views of heaven. Two world wars and the prospect of nuclear disaster made the idea of a comfy, progressive afterlife...
Other artists, however, were already a little past their prime. Ernst's paintings in America, with their ambiguous figures emerging like dream images from runny, blotted, metamorphic landscapes, hardly compare with his work in the 1920s. And though Chagall's Yellow Crucifixion, 1943, swarms with images of contemporary loss and persecution--the burning shtetl, the fleeing refugees, the sinking torpedoed ship--its formal softness indicates the turn his work would take after the war toward pious ethno-kitsch...