Word: lagoons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that neither can stomach. The result is a traumatized child and a vomiting father Fogarty finishes off the weekend playing Monopoly and slugging gin on the sly at the local AA chapter, and finally pursuing what he thinks is the White While in a rowboat on the Central Park lagoon," "It made little difference when the thing barked," the story ends, "Fogarty was back in action...
...Venice, according to Professor Pasquale Rotondi, head of Italy's national restoration center, the famed bronze horses on the façade of St. Mark's must be removed to an atmosphere-controlled room in the Marciana Library, "before the season of lagoon fogs" begins in late fall. Their bronze is now too corroded by pollution to remain outside. The same measures, Rotondi insists, are needed to preserve the so-called Doors of Paradise that Ghiberti made for Florence's Baptistery...
...youthful self. More important he is able to set down the gradual growth of his mind. After the early Paris period when he thought his feet could take him farther than his head, he entered a blurry "transcendental" phase culminating in the Irish sojourn. In that "Victorian lagoon," even the fighting seemed unreal. He arrived at Cork terrified by a hail of machine-gun fire, only to be reassured by the urchin carrying his bag: " Tis only the boys from the hills." In Ireland he met his first true writers-Yeats and O'Casey among others-and he dreamed...
...gray whale, once considered virtually extinct, is alive and multiplying in the lagoons along the coast of Baja California. That news was reported last week by Carl Hubbs, of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Hubbs credited the whale's comeback to Mexico's ban on hunting and its designation of a large lagoon as a whale sanctuary. According to Hubbs, four other supposedly doomed species are also winning the fight against extinction. The northern elephant seal and the Guadalupe fur seal are both doing well on the tiny remote island of Guadalupe off Baja. The sea otter...
Sailing into Santorini's embrace, a traveler senses that the majestic scenery was created by incomprehensible forces. The most prominent feature of Santorini, also called Thera, is a lagoon some 37 miles in circumference. At the lagoon's center are two low burnt black mounds of smoking lava, one named Nea Kameni, the other Palaia Kameni. To the east, the cliffs of the main crescent-shaped body of land stand sheer out of the water to a height of almost a thousand feet. The bottom of the lagoon is a full thousand feet below. In fact the ship...