Word: fahrenheit
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Milan was colder than Moscow, and Madrid turned into a skating rink, with first-aid stations set up to treat all the broken bones. A village in France's Lozère region shivered in the coldest temperatures ever recorded in the country -29.2° below zero Fahrenheit. Holiday skiers in the Swiss Alps found little joy in temperatures that reached -13° F. In Venice's Piazza San Marco, where makeshift bridges were set up two weeks ago so that pedestrians could negotiate the tide-flooded square, children skied and tossed snowballs. While Scandinavia was unseasonably warm...
...More Fahrenheit. To herald the first installment of "Soldiers," the Atlantic has its first two-page foldout cover in its 1,356-issue history, a striking collage by Larry Rivers. The cover is not the only physical innovation. Under Manning's direction, there has been more use of white space and illustrations...
...partly because Harper's looks more daring (lots of leg and very little miniskirt in a Women's Lib cover last February), many people in the publishing business regard Harper's as the "hotter" book. But if "hot" means popular with advertisers, the Atlantic has more Fahrenheit. Including the October issue, the Atlantic has carried 444 pages of ads this year, up from 381 last year; Harper's has run 395, down from 412. In circulation, Harper's leads, 379,210 to 326,347. Neither is a notable moneymaker...
...settings are even odder than the characters who inhabit them. Barthelme writes about a country named Paraguay. It is not in South America; it is a neverland where everybody has the same fingerprints and sexual intercourse occurs only when the temperature is between 66° and 69° Fahrenheit...
...hero, Max Jamison, is a drama critic by function but a critic by an act of nature: "He preferred a good mechanic to a bad poet from the first." Max is a critic in the way that the 747 flies, the tiger stalks, and water boils at 212° Fahrenheit. He could get irate at a three-minute egg for being a four-minute egg. Before he is even married to her, one of his wives looks at him after making love and remarks: "I'd hate to think you were assigning me a grade...