Word: yellowing
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...strikers, Sean McKenna, 26, sentenced to 25 years for terrorist offenses including the attempted murders of a policeman and a Protestant civilian, was reported to be going blind from lack of food. He was described as comatose and close to death; a visiting relative said he looked like a "yellow skeleton." Amid warnings that McKenna had only 24 hours to live, prison authorities brought in a priest to give him the last rites of the Roman Catholic Church. After the strike was called off, the fear remained that he might still die even though he was immediately transferred...
Early in the evening, a yellow Ford pulled up to the southwest entrance of the White House. Transition boss Edwin Meese and Nevada Senator Paul Laxalt piled out and proceeded to the Situation Room in the basement. They were about to make their nightly call to Ronald Reagan at his Pacific Palisades home and now they felt it necessary to use the most tap-proof telephones in the nation to discuss the most top-secret political topic in town: Who would be members of his new Cabinet...
Crowds in U.S. cities have been equally curious about the traveling Chinese show. Western eyes are delighted by fine Peking porcelain vases, trays made of glowing cinnebar lacquer and Ching dynasty emperors' robes of embroidered yellow silk as thin as a breath of air. Visitors have also been intrigued by a large dragon vase that is said to be able to determine the severity of an earthquake by the way a set of balls rolls from the dragon's mouth into those of the eight toads below...
...produced some of the finest examples of the genre. In The Art of Hokusai in Book Illustration (Sotheby Parke Bernet/ University of California; 288 pages; $110), Scholar Jack Hillier explores seven decades of artistry. Hokusai, who began by illustrating cheap 18th century novelettes known as kibyŏshi ("yellow-backs"), was prolific; he once illustrated 61 volumes of a Chinese classic. As Hillier observes, the man was an "encyclopedist of Japanese life and custom." That life and custom included portraiture, nature studies and some explicit erotic drawings that earn this book an X rating...
...still dresses in the gray three-piece suits and plain white shirts he favored for official appearances, but his desk is no longer piled high with scrawl-covered yellow legal pads, news clips, letters, schedules and unanswered telephone messages. With little of substance left to do in his remaining days at the White House, Jody Powell is troubled by a vague sense of failure. Says he: "I don't feel at all satisfied with what I've done. To start with, we lost the election...