Word: nino
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Translating directly from Spanish, he paints the mighty tropical storm, El Nino, into a small boy, hudding, "like us,/ gnawing his knees...
...m.p.h. jet stream. Normally, a high-pressure dome off the coast deflects such activity, guarding the state's reputation for temperate days. But the dome dissipated, explains the National Weather Service, and with it went the region's shelter from the storm. That old devil El Nino, the condition that sends warmth and moisture into the air over the Pacific, may have entered that void and so become a menacing contributor to California's extraordinary week...
...functions differently. If it works, sexual arousal is real, not imaginary. And if it doesn't work? The most recent example is Harold Brodkey's novel Profane Friendship (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 387 pages). The author tells of a long, intensely erotic affair between the narrator, an American novelist named Nino, and an Italian named Onni. The names are anagrams of each other -- different stirrings of the same ingredients, including the same...
BLAME WILLARD SCOTT. Everybody talks about the weather, but only rainmakers and baseball sluggers can profit from it. Could El Nino be the culprit, wafting dozens of puny pop-ups into the far bleachers? Jim Kaat thinks so. "This spring we've had the wind blowing out," observes the former 20-game winner, now an announcer for the White Sox. "Wrigley Field in Chicago, Fenway Park in Boston used to be pitchers' parks in April. This year they weren...
...differently. If it works, sexual arousal is real, not imaginary. And if it doesn't work? The most recent example is Harold Brodkey's novel Profane Friendship (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 387 pages; $23). The author tells of a long, intensely erotic affair between the narrator, an American novelist named Nino, and an Italian named Onni. The names are anagrams of each other -- different stirrings of the same ingredients, including the same...