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...gray autumn dusk outside, with just enough rain to keep the streets and sidewalks damp. As the hour approaches, radiators click on around the church. "This is typical," Chris Forrest says. "Lots of mistakes and people thinking they can't possibly...
...secular cathedral, dedicated to the rites of travel, but its glories lasted only 40 years. By 1939 changes in railroad technology had downgraded it to a commuter station. In 1969 the last train left, and the place was abandoned: a rusting abode of cats and pigeons, whose damp silence was occasionally broken by film units; Orson Welles and Bernardo Bertolucci are among the directors who have sought evocative locations in its Piranesian gloom. Meanwhile developers covetously eyed it, dreaming of the slow-motion arc of the wrecker's ball. In 1971 the French government, under President Georges Pompidou, issued...
...National Weather Service this morning predicted overcast, damp weather through tomorrow with periods of rain...
...evidence of his letters, Thomas went on clutching his damp adolescent convictions until, some 20 years later, he died of drink and complications in a New York City hospital. The task of being a law unto himself entailed the remorseless exploitation of intimates, casual acquaintances and total strangers. The poet proved himself up to such demands. "I am the most unreliable friend that ever was," he confessed in a letter in 1934, and he was not kidding. He agreed to be best man at the wedding of Poet Vernon Watkins, his closest and most loyal confidant, and then failed...
...launch platform was about to be flooded by powerful streams of water gushing from six pipes fully 7 ft. in diameter. The purpose: to damp the lift- off sound levels from Challenger's three engines. Otherwise, the acoustic energy alone could damage the craft's underside. The main-engine firing sequence was turned over to computers...