Word: mists
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Being a waterman at Chelsea on the Thames was a good way to get to know artists. With its cluttered wharves and shadowy hulls in the mist, Chelsea Reach was a famous painting spot. An old boat maker named Greaves (rhymes with leaves) used to row famed Painter J. M. W. Turner up & down the Reach. Walter Greaves, the boatman's son, painted heraldic devices on his father's boats and, as he grew up, longed for broader canvases. One day in the 1860s, when Walter was in his late teens, he got to know a Chelsea neighbor...
...rainy mist sweeps gently o'er the village by the stream, When from the leafy forest glades the brigand daggers gleam . . . And yet there is no need to fear or step from out their way, For more than half the world consists of bigger rogues than they...
...taste," burbles Chilean Author María-Luísa Bombal, "the grim, documentary type of writing is overdone today. I prefer-what you call-escape." Because escapist literature is Hollywood's meat, her new novel, House of Mist (Farrar Straus, $2.75), was a natural mouthful (at $125,000) for Producer Hal Wallis. Even without book royalties Author Bombal's literary take is tops for a Latin American writer...
...House of Mist and Señorita Bombal have a common background in the lake region of southern Chile, where it rains so hard (104 inches a year) that mist is almost a sign of fine weather. There María-Luísa's heroine, Helga, a love child, falls in love with Daniel, the boy next door. But Daniel marries Helga's cousin Teresa, who commits suicide. Helga becomes his second wife. Because she knows that Daniel still loves Teresa, she spends a night with a handsome interloper. Later, Daniel falls in love with Helga...
...radiological aftereffects were relatively slight; the dangerously radioactive materials they released were largely sucked up into the substratosphere. But says Dr. Warren: "That second one at Bikini really ties this business up in a knot. . . . Literally astronomical quantities of radioactive material had become intimately mixed with the sea water, mist and spray which accompanied the formation of the giant mushroom of water which rose from the lagoon. . . . [Such atomic mist] will deposit huge amounts of radium-equivalent -anywhere from a ton to 100 tons...