Word: tints
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...cameraman, a little punchy like the rest of us, is waxing avant-garde. He or she is focusing tight on the state of Florida, marked "too close to call" on the electoral map. There's a red tint to the picture, and the state is colorless, ringed in a bright line. The camera has a bit of a fuzzy focus effect, so that the state appears to be etched onto the map by a luminous ring of fire...
...city closed where they crossed the blazing forests, houses claimed by flames racing down the fingers of vegetation that probe the city's suburbs. To the west, the national parkland of the Blue Mountains, named for the eucalyptus oils that evaporate from the gum trees and tint the air, is a 10,000-sq.-km wilderness of heavily wooded gullies and forbidding cliffs, home to well over a thousand species of plants. Only six years ago the Wollemi pine was added to the list. These prehistoric trees, previously unknown, were found in one of the region's remote canyons, where...
...that is not to say there is no left-leaning tint to the department...