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...poet of dreams deferred. His follow up novel, The Crazed, is stylistically similar, but this time Jin has made his politics more explicit. Set in the heartbreaking spring of 1989, The Crazed exposes a struggle to awake from a nightmare of personal and social oppression?before the inferno of Tiananmen...
...volume broadcasts of Bach's organ music and Mozart's doom-laden opera Don Giovanni to clear Copenhagen's main station of drunks and junkies. If things get really bad, they can always play The Ketchup Song.There was no al-Qaeda dirty bomb, no chemical plant disaster, no towering inferno. None of the worst-case scenarios imagined by tabloid journalists and military planners ahead of the U.K.'s first fire-services strike in 25 years came to pass. But as the 48-hour shutdown ended, there was no collective sigh of relief either. With the Fire Brigades Union (FBU) planning...
Some call it "The Monster." One of the worst blazes recorded in the American West, the fire in eastern Arizona has consumed nearly half a million acres. All but 5,000 of 30,000 residents forced to flee the inferno were allowed to return after firefighters secured the area around the commercial hub of Show Low. But for more than 400 households, home was a charred ruin. The fire continued licking westward, devouring a canyon below the town of Forest Lakes...
...that she wanted the fire to spread--and whatever her intent, that's what it did. The flames leaped at the rate of a foot per second, engulfing more than 136,000 acres to become the largest conflagration in Colorado's history. Barton's admission--seven days after the inferno began--made it clear that the catastrophe is more than an unfathomable act of God in a season of at least 18 major Western wildfires. Named the Hayman fire--by Barton herself--after a pioneer homestead in the area, it should be called the Barton blaze for the tragic, confused...
...walls and across ceilings in "Royal Wedding," defied age by hoofing serenely through his sixth, seventh and eighth decades. He conquered television with a brace of specials in the late 50s. He turned to straight acting and won an Oscar nomination (his first!) for his performance in "The Towering Inferno." In his 81st year he took a wife less than half his age: thoroughbred jockey Robyn Smith...