Word: hailstorms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...plenty of people in Hong Kong are still concerned that their civil liberties are not protected well enough. When Tung attempted to curtail public protests even moderately, he ran into an international hailstorm of criticism. Observers grew even more anxious when Tung publicly suggested on the eve of this year's June 4 rally that it was time for Hong Kong to "forget the baggage" of Tiananmen. The Independent Commission Against Corruption is widely credited with cleaning up Hong Kong's notoriously graft-riddled police and civil service in the late '70s and maintaining a staunch bulwark against the rampant...
Raban, an English travel writer resettled in the U.S., is a good and shrewd observer. He sees the origins of today's political attitudes--the Westerners' reflexive contempt for environmentalism and genial hatred of the Federal Government--in the homesteaders' ordeal by hailstorm and bankruptcy. But what makes Bad Land exceptional, on a level with William Least Heat-Moon's Blue Highways and PrairyErth, is a pervasive sense of yearning. The author is powerfully drawn to this hard country, this broad and nearly featureless landscape, and the reader does not doubt that had Raban been born in 1880, he would...
...should be glad that the world didn't learn of the Martian hailstorm any earlier. Congress might have spent countless dollars building an atmospheric shield. Its members would have had to appease the country when their constituents thought those insidious Martian rocks were soaking up their money by hiding from view all the diamonds in their backyard...
directed by Lasse Hailstorm...
Just after a hailstorm, Mike Downhower, 17, leads the troop down a mountain trail and suddenly notices a strange tree root. It rattles! Downhower skids to a panicked stop and gives the alarm. The rattlesnake simply slithers into the bushes. At a 19th century "Mexican" village whose cantina is stocked with root beer, Dennis Meade, 18, finds a rare gas-fired outdoor shower in a meadow. He also notices a barrel-shaped relocation trap on rubber wheels awaiting an especially pesky local bear. In the shower Meade hears a noise. The bear has walked into the dressing enclosure...