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Among contemporary dramatists, Edward Albee has displayed some of the most seething animosity toward women. In Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Martha pours molten lava of abuse and contempt over her professor-husband George, both privately and publicly. Though he does the same to her, she has clearly emasculated him even before the action begins. Then she tries to cuckold him in their own house with his younger colleague, but in her arms the colleague, too, proves impotent. "I am the Earth Mother," she brays. "You're all flops...
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...
...molten hail produced by Santorini's deafening eruption must have rendered all lands within a 100-mile radius (including central Crete) uninhabitable. Then came the incursion of the sea into the immense lava boil that had been Santorini-probably causing water to recede temporarily from shores around the Mediterranean. As the immense volume of water that had converged on Santorini rushed outward again in a giant wave, it smashed harbors and flooded large districts around the Mediterranean basin. The great sea empire of Minoan Crete simply vanished in the wake of Santorini's destruction...
...most excitement among scientists shows a 250-mile-long valley that resembles an arroyo (a water-cut gulley common in semiarid regions on earth). The valley is 3½ miles wide and has branching, streamlike tributaries that seem more likely to have been formed by water than by lava. "We are hard put to find a mechanism other than running water for these features," says Harold Masursky of the U.S. Geolog ical Survey. Although scientists agree that there is no free-flowing water on the Martian surface now, the sharp and uneroded features of the valley indicate that it could...
...Kahnweiler recalls, "could ever imagine the poverty, the deplorable misery of those studios. The wallpaper hung in tatters from the unplastered walls. There was dust on the drawings and rolled-up canvases on the caved-in couch. Beside the stove was a kind of mountain of piled-up lava, which was ashes. It was unspeakable...