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...warm, hand-rubbed oak-flooring walls) leads to the ten consulting rooms, each soundproofed to silence, looks out through a full glass wall onto a serene, narrow garden court planted with vine maples and deciduous huckleberries, and backed by a plastic fence paneled in off-white, honey and burnt orange...
...interested to see in your Oct. 22 issue a picture of a "burning taxi and cremated driver in Hong Kong." I wish to point out a small error in your description in connection with this gruesome picture. Actually, the badly burnt man whose left hand is pinned beneath the burning taxi was one of the rioters and not the taxi driver. The lucky taxi driver managed to fight his way out of the burning car and later out of the hostile crowd of rioters. I also had a very close shave that day at the same spot. I blundered into...
...Expedition Leader John Garstang: "The space between the two walls is filled with fragments and rubble. There are clear traces of a tremendous fire." Says the Bible: "When the priests blew with the trumpets . . . and the people shouted with a great shout ... the wall fell down flat ... and they burnt the city with fire, and all that was therein." Scientists conclude that an earthquake may have tumbled the walls...
...What interested me was that the space of the trees in the foreground seems to embrace the space of the bay." The starting point for The Weir and the Island, now owned by Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum, was the view Kienbusch got of a weir made of burnt spruce, set in a tideway. "The spruce boughs were rust-colored," he recalls. "They stood up out of the water like wild orange branches in a blue field. The three bars represent low tide, and then the island. It's kind of a wild picture...
...Wish." From the first ambush, the Israeli army and police played a grisly game of hide-and-seek with the infiltrators. Clues were stiffening bodies, blown-up irrigation pipes, wrecked rail lines, burnt-out cars and trucks-a trail of death running between the fields of ripening corn, blossom-scented orange groves, drying creek beds and shifting dunes, to the shallow trench that divides Israel from the refugee-jammed Gaza strip. The Israelis killed eleven, captured four. One patrol stalked a returning assassin team for 18 hours, killed all five "self-sacrificers" as they hid in a clump of trees...