Word: 35th
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...late December meteorologists noticed another dramatic change. The upper-level westerlies south of the 35th parallel (from Southern California to North Carolina) had picked up speed while those north of it had slowed. The jet stream had edged to the south, along a path that was much less curved. Instead of sweeping north over the Pacific with a cargo of warm, moist air and dumping snow and rain on Alaska, Washington and Oregon, the westerlies now were aiming their punch directly at California. The result: Southern California was inundated for nine days by storms that brought a total...
Dali's career has been very long. He is now 75, and almost all the works of art that make up his contribution to modernism, and on which his fame as a serious artist rests, were painted before his 35th birthday. In fact they were done in about seven years, from 1929 to 1936. Before, his work is all a pastiche of others. After 1937, it is mostly parody of himself...