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...from their homes and created havoc over a wide area of Mexico. Since then, 3,721-ft. El Chichón (The Lump) has simmered down, giving off only occasional blasts of steamy vapor. But the mountain continues to be an object of intense scientific concern. Though the initial blowup was relatively small. El Chichón pumped so much dust and debris into the upper atmosphere-perhaps more than any other volcano since 1912-that the earth's climate could be adversely affected...
...declaring a "potential volcanic hazard"-the lowest of three possible levels of alert-the U.S.G.S. emphasizes that an eruption is not certain. But the volcano watchers note that there is geological precedent for a major blowup in the region. Mammoth Lakes lies inside a huge 10-mile by 18-mile caldera, or depression, called Long Valley. It was created 700,000 years ago by a volcanic eruption probably more powerful than any the earth has seen since...
...house and, in moments of stress, plays Susan Alexander to Frank's Citizen Kane. Bernd can't accept that Frank is voracious for sexual experience with any consenting adult male; Frank feels restricted by Bernd's desire for a placid sex life and regular mealtimes. A blowup is inevitable. Coming home from a drag ball, they have one last fight. Frank strides into his classroom dressed as an Indian princess, with earrings, headband, beads, bra and tattered sari. "Good morning, children," he says airily...
...lady of the evening, Sally (Nancy Allen). Jack dives in and saves her, but is later warned by police and friends of the deceased politician to forget that she existed. The plot thickens-curdles, really-with hints of Chappaquiddick and Nixonian plumbers, with genuflections to Michelangelo Antonioni's Blowup and Francis Ford Coppola's The Conversation, with narrative implausibilities and internal contradictions and enough red herrings to stock a Leningrad fish market...
...West. Portland, Ore., San Mateo, Calif., and Louisville, Ky., will soon have Hungarian-American-built Crown-Ikarus buses rolling down their streets. Hungarian officials hope the Soviet Union will recognize that it has the choice of letting its satellites improve their economies-or risking a Polish-style blowup. -By John S. DeMott...