Word: patching
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...presents itself as a soft hive of colored blobs, blooming and twinkling in rows, against a dark ground. Lit windows? Strings of restaurant lights? A view from a terrace? Then more specific things appear: a pinkish vertical, another stage flat, turns into a stucco wall; a cobalt patch at the center, where the vanishing point would be if there were any perspective, resolves itself as a glimpse of sea; the S of creamy green paint that lights the whole painting with its contradictory glare, leaping against the more tentative and modulated speckling of the rest of the surface...
Scrape of feathers against the box. The self gathers bravely, before dispersion inland, burial in a cabbage patch...
...quite like this. "How are the Green Berets different?" piped up former Sergeant Mark Atchison. Tougher? Smarter? No. "We believed it. We tried to win their hearts and minds. We never called 'em 'gooks.' " An instant later at the bar an argument about a shoulder patch turned into an abortive brawl. "A lot of people here," suggested Russ Lindley, a long-haired ex-paratrooper, "are letting it out for the first time...
...have been lofted, the latest in July. Instead of traveling along the equator, as do most communications satellites, Landsat 4 circles the earth once every 99 min. via the polar regions. Thus as the planet turns underneath the satellite, Landsat's ever vigilant electronic eyes see a different patch of earth on every pass...
...outlandish as some of his locker room antics might seem nothing could rival the time that Cash showed up at training camp with his entire head shaved save for a patch of hair that formed the letter. H "Unless, of course, it was the time he decided to have a Yale bulldog, transfixed by a knife tattooed...