Word: herman
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...heard a loud bang, then a deafening roar, and for a few seconds I could see a reddish-yellow flame streaking across the sky," recalled Bear Hunter Herman Sotkajarvi, a resident of the northernmost reaches of Norway, well above the Arctic Circle. "The house quivered, windows rattled, and my three dogs started barking." What Sotkajarvi apparently saw in the early afternoon of Dec. 28 was a runaway cruise missile fired from either a submarine or a ship during Soviet naval maneuvers in the Barents Sea, northeast of the Scandinavian Peninsula. Norwegian radar tracked the supersonic object as it crossed...
...just the summit of a mountain of American treasures that are preserved in a vast building on Constitution Avenue in Washington. This historical storehouse, 50 years old this year, is celebrated in The National Archives of the United States (Abrams; 289 pages; $49.50), with a knowledgeable text by Herman J. Viola, director of the National Anthropological Archives and photographs by Jonathan Wallen. Presidential papers go back to George Washington; State Department records to Revolutionary War naval prize cases; census records to the first one, in 1790. There are Mathew Brady's photographs, and Walker Evans' too, and confiscated...
...artists, the ones most likely to resist received tradition (and to follow fashion). A deliberately cartoonish image by Kenny Scharf sports edges decked with plastic dinosaurs and rockets. Larger-than-life wooden silhouettes - two birds, for instance, or a garland of branches - shoot up around the landscapes of Alan Herman. More established figures are also working in the same vein. Howard Hodgkin, whose canny strokes of pigment hint at enclosed views, sweeps paint across the frame to twit its pretensions as the final proscenium...
John U. "Jack" Lemmon '47 attended Harvard, as did Frederick L. 'Grandy '70 ("Gopher" on "The Love Boat"), Susan W. Stockard-Channing '65, Frederick H. Gwynne '51 ("Herman" on "The Munsters"), John A. Lithgow '67 ("The World According to Garp"), among other actors...
Once the flooding was detected, technicians were forced to shut down the electrical transformer which supplies Eliot with power, said Herman C. Carlson, senior electrical engineer in the facilities and maintenance department. And in order to shut off effectively the electricity supplying Eliot, they had to shut off lines affecting other buildings as well, Saltonstall said...