Volyova nodded at the shuttle's glaringly white console, at the readout windows she had called into being across its horseshoe profile.

The huge wooden hall hung with bear and wolf pelts was full when Caesar, his purple-bordered toga glaringly white amid so much color, mounted the dais to speak.

In a glaringly white environment, the first models appeared in stark black clothing with black liner around their eyes, pale lips and straggly wet hair.

BUT the glaringly white salt fields of the Salar de Atacama, a few miles beyond Toconao, were something new - hard, hummocky and surprisingly sharp-edged.

Finally an area large enough for the big cargo 'copter was cleared away, and the lumbering metal beast, painted glaringly white with a huge red cross on either side, settled slowly down onto the bare ground.

The ground was covered with snow, glaringly white even under that pinpoint Sun.

Connor and Rebecca were lying side by side on a blanket at the bathing pool, nude and glaringly white in the afternoon sun, covered in little pearls of water.

At other times she was completely awake, staring at a glaringly white tiled ceiling in a stainlesssteel room.

His eyes were burning from hours of staring down at glaringly white sand and an occa- sional bed of rock polished so highly by sand-bearing winds they reflected the sun's rays like mirrors.

The Himalayas, visible in the distance to the north throughout most of the flight as a deep sweep of glaringly white peaks, gradually disappeared under a layer of haze.