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...doesn't work very well in a serious life. The thing about the present is precisely its confused instability, its blurriness, its sleight-of-hand. Now you see it, now you don't. It is a fog of particles in motion, a montage of denial and fantasy and sidelong perception. And therefore a most congenial medium for the current President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Trouble With The Present Tense | 3/30/1998 | See Source »

...from the center of town and 360 ft. below the rim of the pit, threatening one day to spill into an underground aquifer and send a tide of contaminants seeping into neighborhoods and creeks across the Summit Valley. Some people are concerned about a shroud of morning mist and fog--a product of the lake--that envelops parts of the town. "All that moisture has to be carrying bad things in it," says worried restaurateur Buck Loomis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Butte, Montana: The Giant Cup Of Poison | 3/30/1998 | See Source »

...morning was originally clear, but as the bus rumbles across the Charles on Harvard Bridge, fog obscures the downtown skyline. The clouds look dry, like a blanket, which may explain why there's no rain in this haze. Most of the passengers get off at Newbury Street and more depart at the Symphony and Orange Line stops. A few blocks after the last Orange Line sign, the doors open and since each corner appears a little more run-down than the last, my survival instinct prompts me to get off before the bus goes any further. The sign...

Author: By Jonathan B. Stein, | Title: Destination: South End | 3/5/1998 | See Source »

...block east on Tremont Street, a stone church tower pierces the fog. The doors of New Hope Baptist Church open and several well-dressed black ladies descend its well-worn concrete steps. An aging but lively woman says a deaconess meeting has just adjourned, and, like a good deaconess, she smiles and adds, "Come back tomorrow, and then you'll really have a story. We have a great service--you should bring your friends...

Author: By Jonathan B. Stein, | Title: Destination: South End | 3/5/1998 | See Source »

...getting darker. More fog has settled in the intersection, blowing between buildings on either side of the street, as if the roofs are supporting the edges of a luminous cloud. A drunken man stumbles by, singing in a foreign language. Again, instinct says it's time to head back to the Square. Old number one pulls up a few minutes later and in minutes I'm back at Holyoke Gate where the journey began...

Author: By Jonathan B. Stein, | Title: Destination: South End | 3/5/1998 | See Source »

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