multicolored

You see them crowding checkout counters at grocery stores — a rainbow of bubble-gum pink, lime green and blueberry packets, slender and upright, like a multicolored chorus line of dancers tempting an impulse purchase.

But the familiar multicolored tables have since disappeared from its site.

Outside, where multicolored fencing provides a bright backdrop to children playing soccer in the yard, gunfire once ricocheted, with army snipers perched on rooftops and armored vehicles rolling by.

Hair, body contours and facial features are often lined with the glittery paste, sometimes multicolored.

When displayed visually, that continuum looks something like a multicolored starfish swimming away from a predator.