Word: fogs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...spend enough time out there to give it a real chance, but I'm not sure I wanted to. It was big and noisy and dirty and I just couldn't see the attraction. When we landed in Boston it was raining and there was a nice layer of fog covering the city. On the way home from the airport we drove through the Callahan Tunnel and very few people honked their horns. It was good to be home...
After the body was discovered, police reported that Renfrew had most likely lost her way in the heavy fog which normally surrounds, the peak, and attempted to retrace her steps back to the tourist path when she fell...
Kitchen hallucinates, sometimes he recognizes people, sometimes not, or pretends not. He is old and ill, mere months away from death, yet he is imperious in manner and caustic of tongue. Sometimes, Kitchen grasps the nettle of truth with blazing lucidity; at other times, he stumbles through a fog bank of displaced memories. The people around him, his daughter Mathilda (Sheila Ballantine), his wealthy son-in-law Benson (Gerald Flood), who grudgingly houses him, his watchdog companion Bristol (Edward Judd), whom Kitchen believes to be a So viet spy, and his granddaughter Gloria (Marty Cruickshank) are not full-fleshed characters...
...literary models, I was trying to say that the world is so rich and inexhaustible that writings can never keep up with it." Perhaps not, but Calvino makes a manly effort. It all begins with that traveler on that winter's night in a railroad station. Outside, much fog. Inside, much steam from the espresso machine. Suddenly the reader stumbles into the kitchen realism of a Polish novel featuring an onion being fried by a young woman called Brigd. Franz Kafka would be right at home...
Sometimes even Stockman could not get through the fog. He grappled one night until 4 a.m. with a bill affecting the federal employee retirement system and gave up. He could not understand it, and he doubts that the people who prepared it could either. It is Stockman's view that the Social Security program is now technically so dense that no one in the Government comprehends it totally. The information crisis is most acute on the Hill, where, in Stockman's view, "there is not much reward for accumulating knowledge." The more pressing concern is political survival. Also...