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...When the mud starts sliding in Malibu or the smog hides the tops of the palm trees in Beverly Hills, movie executives console themselves with at least one thought: in bad times people will still go to the movies. It is one of the fondest myths in an industry that deals in myths, and everyone remembers Mom and Dad standing in line at the Bijou during the Depression. How much truth is there to that comforting accepted wisdom? None at all, according to a San Francisco financial analyst. When the rest of the country catches cold, so does Hollywood...
Next, as soon as the sun goes down, armored personnel carriers equipped with high-intensity searchlights rumble out of the mud-walled Soviet tank depot half a mile south of Chaghasaray. The APCs probe the mountains with their lights and shoot off silver-and orange-colored flares at areas of suspicious movements. On the night I stayed awake to watch, the light show came on every ten to 15 minutes. According to mujahidin, the most intense fighting is in the Pich valley, where Soviet tanks have been trying to secure the main road. As I listened for more than...
...week's end no lava had appeared, although there was still that possibility. There was another danger: the heat of the volcano might melt the 16-ft. snow cover on the mountain, flooding streams and causing massive mud slides. As a precaution, water levels in three reservoirs on the nearby Lewis River were lowered. Meanwhile, scientists and residents kept watching anxiously to see just how angry Mount St. Helens would get. Said Kurt Austermann of the U.S. Forest Service: "We don't want to panic anybody, but nobody really knows whether it's going to start spitting...
...across the southeast part of the state. Up North folks were trying to decide whether to pack away mufflers and mittens after spring-in-December readings of 16° C (60° F). The most startling weather occurred in California, where downpours of almost biblical proportions caused floods, mud slides and untold havoc...
...years after medical school and his Sutherland novel, Liza of Lambeth, Maugham emerged as a successful playwright, an Edwardian Neil Simon who had two and three pro ductions running simultaneously on the London stage. World War I found him driving an ambulance through the mud of France and correcting proof for Of Human Bondage. It was this book that began his ambiguous reputation as the most serious popular writer in English. His exotic settings and ruthless eye prompted reviewers to call him the Kipling of the Pacific and the English Maupassant. But by World War II, a younger generation...