"The weather's good and it's a fun place," said Li Jianjun, a government worker, who emerged from the water and lay down on the dirt colored sand waiting for friends to bury him.
The grease and dirt, permanent as tattoos, inked his skin, and the tar and dirt colored the quick under his fingernails, then and forever".
And after a while, the dirt-colored landscape becomes almost unwatchably bleak.
"I am a great believer in dirt-colored clothing — anything that hides both dog hair and dirt," she said.
Honey-colored hair, not dirt-colored like Lisette's, in waves to her shoulders, sparkling eyes, a quick soothing laugh that a man wanted to hear — not sharp and ice-picky, driving him up the wall.
I'd traded my Lanvin and Louboutins for a frightening bush hat, dirt-colored hiking shoes and one of those water backpacks with a tube that leads to your mouth.
And sometimes the form overshoots the mark even if the flavors click, like the portobello mushroom mousse ($13), which arrives as a perfect brown cube, dirt-colored and candy-shaped.
The lodge, developed by a local anti-developer, Mark Austin, was built to blend as best it could into the background: a series of two-story buildings, reddish-dirt-colored with rusted corrugated tin roofs.
When the sun had disappeared behind the mountains, I checked into the sprawling dirt-colored motel, found my $75-a-night 75-a-night 75-a-night roomvely spacious arrangement with a king bed -- and promptly fell asleep.
The people responsible -- those fulfilling the repeated vow of public officials to rebuild New York -- labor on the 16-acre plane of devastation like worker ants on an immense hill: the ironworkers in dirt-colored T-shirts; the volunteer ministers in shirts of sunny yellow; the Salvation Army members in red, the F.B.I. agents in blue, the National Guard soldiers in camouflage green.
Continuing the urban theme, the roses are placed on a dirt-colored floor, the steel tiles laid out like a grid.
