pearl gray

What would it be like to walk out in the whiteness, to sink through the drifts as the flakes hissed out of a pearl-gray sky, to look back at the buildings small and then smaller still, and to walk on till freezing fingers and legs seemed a dull flame and pure white covered everything?

In the midst of the hubbub, we receive reminders as if gifts: snow has begun falling; the great river, now pearl-gray, fades imperceptibly into the mountains guarding its western shore.

The sagebrush cavorts in the wind with the blue and yellow wildflowers; the jutting purple and gray mountains embrace the gentle grass-green valley below; horses whinny at the oncoming storm carried by the pearl-gray clouds; and a mother cow moans for her calf.

The place has undergone a face-lift, but it was like the old days when guests sat on gilt chairs and watched the models descend the striking spiral staircase into the pearl-gray, mirrored salon.

Effecting a sharp contrast, a woman clad in a pearl-gray unitard intermittently intervenes.

Played out on a simple set (designed by Alexander Orlov) of pearl-gray floorboards and walls pitched slightly forward, Stoukalov's treatment captures the stifling atmosphere engendered by desperate people gathered in one place for the sole purpose of escaping their desperation.

Dial Plus packaging features a soft peach and pearl-gray background.