The bright yellow and green Ta Bom ( www.tabomtruck.com) serves Brazilian specialties like pasteles (crisp pastries) of ground beef, cheese or banana, and the Hamburgao, a burger piled high with scrambled eggs, bacon, French-fried potato sticks, corn and more.

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The colors were the main story here, however: tangerine, pink, bright yellow, forrest green, often in surprising combinations.

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The gems are olivine--a mineral class that includes semiprecious peridot--and can range in color from deep green to bright yellow.

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Walls are painted bright colors: orange in the entryway, yellow in the living room and bright green cabinets in the kitchen.

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South Florida, wearing bright green-and-yellow uniforms, went 16 for 66 from the field and 5 for 26 (19 percent) from 3-point range.

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Owners inevitably paint the exteriors in a cheerful riot of bright red, green, orange, blue and yellow and line the un-air-conditioned cabs with teakwood to keep them cooler in India's searing heat.

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When Christina Aguilera redecorated her home, she went big with bold colors from bright green in the library to black and yellow in the kitchen whimsical furnishings and over-the-top glam.

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Here the mood seems as bright as the shine on a new green-and-yellow Deere combine.

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Vegans and the gluten-averse can take solace in classic contorni broccoli rabe with raisins and pine nuts, spinach aglio olio and in salads like the pretty plate of rainbow beets, a still-life of fuchsia, crimson, and yellow, its sweetness offset by the peppery bite of bright-green wild watercress.

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