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Merrill spent many years in Greece, and there's an overbrimming sunniness ("There at the highest trumpet blast/ Of Fahrenheit") in much of his poetry, particularly in his early books: with polychromatic warmth and humor he captures lovers, society ladies, fortune-tellers, merchants, children. In recent years he registered more moon than sun perhaps, in poems bathed in a blue, chilly and at times merciless light. Merrill wrote beautifully-painfully-about the daily diminutions of the body and the passing of friends, about aids, alcoholism and senility...
Yesterday, the thermometer dipped to 25 degrees. Today's high is expected to be a frigid 40 Fahrenheit...
...National Weather Service reported record low temperatures for the weekend. The mean temperature Sunday was 2 degrees Fahrenheit, the coldest it's been in several decades...
Three pipes run through the system, two of them 10 inches in diameter and one 12 inches wide--carrying steam hotter than 400 degrees Fahrenheit, Hawkes says...
...facility will be kept at exactly 70 degrees Fahrenheit and air must be circulated through it 15 times per hour--compared with most offices' 1.5 air changes per hour. The tangles of wires, pipes and engines involved are kept hidden...