Word: cold
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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South of the border, the cold wave brought a sudden end to unseasonably warm weather in the American West. In Great Falls, Mont., the temperature fell overnight from a high of 62 degrees to-10 degrees and then down to -34 degrees the next night. Over in Helena, the thermometer reading plummeted from 44 degrees to -6 degrees in just two hours. As far south as Valentine, Neb., a balmy high of 70 degrees turned to 0 degrees in ten hours...
Despite the cold front's ferocity, there were few casualties. In the places that were hardest hit, people were cautious. Martha Hirt of Fairbanks kept her seven school-age children indoors. "They're miserable because they can't play outside," she said. "We're trying to entertain ourselves by watching videos...
...cold? While winters are always frigid in the high latitudes of Alaska and Canada, the cold is usually mitigated by warm winds from the Pacific Ocean. This year, though, a mass of cold air called the Omega Block blew in from Siberia and settled over Alaska. A high-pressure zone got stuck between two low-pressure systems and stayed put over the state, keeping out the warming Pacific winds. By the time cold air moved out of Alaska and headed south, it had built up tremendous force...
...York City's Museum of Modern Art, which showed no great enthusiasm for Andy Warhol while he was alive, went after him con brio as soon as he was dead. The bakemeats were barely cold upon the funeral table when the word went out that MOMA was going to give Warhol the palladium of a full-scale retrospective -- his first in New York since the more premature effort that went on view at the Whitney Museum of American Art in 1971. Whether MOMA wanted to get the crowds before a rival museum did, or simply to get the job over...
Warhol's power, uneven as it was, lay in an emotional narrative that contradicted its cold, fixed, iconic surface. He unskeined a story in which a horror of the world, verging sometimes on acute dread, mingled with an artificial calm and a desire for transcendence. Try as one may, one cannot imagine Gold Marilyn Monroe, 1962, being painted by anyone but a Roman Catholic homosexual; it is both completely camp in its pseudo-Byzantine extravagance and, in its identification of the star with the Madonna, yearningly devotional. Here, Warhol is Genet in paint. So too with the "disasters...