Word: alleys
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...latitude, where it normally centers, to 45° north. The shift eliminated summer rains from most of Europe and brought unusually warm and sunny weather. Meanwhile, cool air suddenly began to flow from the Soviet Union toward the Mediterranean. A low-pressure system over Northern Africa created a bowling-alley effect, directing the moisture-laden air mass straight at Tunisia. On the Tunisian-Algerian border, the Atlas Mountains blocked the air and caused the rain to fall. The mountains also set up a swirling air flow in which clouds gathered up new water...
...BILLY WILDER once. He and his wife were rushing out of a theatre into Shubert Alley in New York, while I stood in the shadows, waiting for a friend. Although I did not recognize him at first, he immediately attracted my attention. He was the fastest moving old man I had ever seen. He practically dragged his wife behind him as he zoomed towards 45th Street. His shoulders bobbed up and down: his cigarette slid from one corner of his month to the other: his eyes darted in every possible direction. A strange guy this Wilder...
DAMNATION ALLEY by Roger Zelazny. 157 pages. Putnam. $4.95. A colloidal suspension of sci-fi death wishes, atomic warfare, erupting volcanoes, mutants and-for ultimate deadliness-motorcycle gangs. Light but lurid...
From Astor the demonstrators turned east on Lake Shore Drive, still breaking windows in the plush apartment buildings, small shops, and high-rise commercial buildings. Police emerged from an alley and fired several rounds of birdshot. One girl was shot in the leg by a pistol...
...Jimmy Walker. Broadway's unceasing penchant for self-celebration will provide a whole clutch of musicals, among them Hocus-Pocus (Harry Houdini) and W.C. (Fields could have thought of a better title). The Girls Upstairs is a tale of Ziegfeld Girls who have passed their prime, and Shubert Alley is about the three brothers who gave Broadway some of its more pungent history...