Word: nino
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...months now a splotch of tropical warmth has been spreading across the Pacific Ocean, from the international dateline to the South American coast. With understandable concern, climatologists have been tracking its progress, for it signifies that El Nino--that mischievous gremlin of the atmosphere and oceans--is once again gathering strength, preparing to unleash meteorological havoc in the months to come. The tropical storms spawning off Mexico, the heavy downpours that have drenched Chile and Peru, the worrisome lack of rain in Australia and Indonesia--all, say scientists, are signs that a powerful El Nino has grabbed control...
...shorts offered a lesson in liberalism: they opened middle America's ears to a burgeoning range of music. Not just black artists but country singers (Eddie Younger), opera stars (Nino Martini) and Chinese-American flappers (Anna Chang) burst into the consciousness of audiences who may at first have resisted the performers as foreign, then melted in the presence of all that charm, talent, eagerness to please...
...comic back to TV after catching his appearance on Late Show with David Letterman in November 1995. The mogul's first step was to dissuade Hall from doing a film he had conceived in which the comic would have starred as a two-faced rap impresario. "It was like Nino Brown meets Shecky Green," Hall explains. "Jeffrey didn't think it was right...
...Professor Wallace of Sloves of the Fashion Institute of Technology on the decision by Carolyn Bessette, recent bride of John F. Kennedy Jr., to wear a wedding dress designed by Nino Cerruti...
...perhaps to move them off the fence into alignment against him. Georgetown University law professor Mark Tushnet, who has studied the personal papers of the late Justice Thurgood Marshall, says Scalia "annoyed everybody at one time or another...They'd get over it and say, 'That's just how Nino is,' and then he'd do something else. It has to have left some residue of unwillingness to accommodate...