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...Weather Service Meteorologist Richard Wagoner. But the storm was far from normal, and so was its nightmarish impact. The extraordinarily heavy rains that poured down on Northern California last week-in some areas, more than a foot in 32 hours-followed weeks of rain that had saturated the porous clay earth. On Monday, mountainsides began turning to mud, flowing in thick torrents over towns and rural houses in their paths. In wealthy Marin Bounty, just north of San Francisco, more han 80 houses were destroyed by mud slides. In Santa Cruz County, to the south, where thousands of people were...
...Ceramic Sculpture: Six Artists," now on view at Manhattan's Whitney Museum, is meant to mend at least some of the failures of cultural communication between the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of America. In California, for the past 25 years, there has been a strong tradition of clay sculpture. In New York, by contrast, any sort of earthenware was generally felt to be inferior as sculptural material, compared with bronze, steel, stone or wood. By showing the work of six leading Californian clay sculptors. Curators Richard Marshall and Suzanne Foley hope to show once and for all that clay...
...that stuff (half-court heaving) all the time at school," said Clay after the second half had begun and attention was again focused on the Crimson's struggle...
Despite his status as the second Bermuda Shoot winner--as fast as Mr. Zimmerman can remember, anyway--Clay has no plans to return to his second-string forwards's spot for the Beloit Buccaneers. He quit just two weeks ago because, Nancy cuts in, "They were just making him practice too much." The Buccaneers' loss is apparently the botany lab's gain...
...would we the lucky person to accompany Clay on his dream weekend? He and Nancy just started deeply; from somewhere the sound of violins...ah, to be young and on your way to the Caribbean...