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Santorini's caldera, or crater, is five times the size of Krakatau's. Quarry operations have disclosed that the ash blanket at Santorini reached a depth of 160 feet as against a few inches at Krakatau. For these reasons and others, geologists assume that the Santorini explosion must have had three or four times the force of Krakatau's. Within a very brief span of time, apparently, Santorini released energy estimated to be equivalent to the blast from a 400-megaton nuclear bomb...
Security is a fuzzy blanket, or Natural Ice Cream, or Bertoit Brecht. The fuzzy blanket keeps you warm, the Natural Ice Cream keeps you healthy (and fat) and Bert Brecht keeps you happy. For Brecht's world is one where the good guys are really good, and the bad guys are really bad. St. Joan is heroic and noble (and shows those Chicago stockyard bosses); Grusha of The Caucasian Chalk Circle triumphs gloriously over those mean Ironshirt heavies. And those who are neither good nor bad but are in morality's mushy middle are at least nice; Baal of Baal...
...Laura and five-year-old daughter Sabrina, who were waiting for him in their dismal one-room flat in the slum quarter of Centocelle. Instead, he clambered up the Colosseum, accompanied by a sympathetic friend (who climbed down again, half-frozen, after only 37 hours). Wrapped in a pink blanket that from a distance resembled a toga, Dante survived a dismally cold week on hard rolls, tea and water, sleeping on a ledge the size of a card table. Once, he slipped, almost fell off, and twisted his ankle...
...wear the older version on occasion, are back in style.) Zarem reports that Bonwit's has sold more than 150 dozen of the Blass button-downs to New Yorkers since first offering them in October. "Response," he says, "has been fantastic. For older customers, it represents a security blanket . . . they relate to everything it represents: flannels, tweeds and oxford cloth. The younger customers see it as part of the classic revival in fashions...
...ultimate prop, however, is Linus's blanket. Under Doug Eichman's affectionate fondling, the woolly soul-mate changes from a cavalier's cape, to a savage's spear, to a dance partner for the number "My Blanket and Me". Despite whatever Lucy might say, he's no "baby brother with a baby blanket," and preposterously picks apart his own psyche and that of others in Papa Bettelheim's best manner...