Word: overcast
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...ravine the sky is overcast, and rain appears imminent. Two women emerge from a red Datsun pickup parked under the railroad trestle. A golden retriever stands guard by their side. Victoria Cross, 36, pulls on a long, flowing green-velvet mask that is sewn to a wrangler's hat. The mask has many gourds hanging from it. Sherie Hartle, 35, is putting on a white mask that resembles a death's-head. The masks are frightening; they are right out of a peyote dream...
Radio Days is only really poignant, though, for those who spent their childhoods in 1930s Brooklyn. The rest of us have to take our emotional cues from the perpetually overcast scenery. So Allen, who does not appear onscreen, has to tell us in a voice-over that his hometown "wasn't always this stormy and wind-swept. But that's the way I remember it, because that's when it was the most beautiful...
...National Weather Service this morning predicted overcast, damp weather through tomorrow with periods of rain...
...blazing, but Fleet Street was overcast. Sports pages throughout the British Isles have been strewn with black crepe. England's footballers were jobbed in the World Cup at the hand of Maradona; the cricket team was embarrassed by India; Irish Featherweight Barry McGuigan was flattened by a substitute from Texas. At Wimbledon, Best Brits Annabel Croft and John Lloyd were sacked straightaway, and here Lloyd was quitting in a manner that seemed to cinch the national sense of failure...
Only 25 fans braved the chilling temperatures and overcast skies at Soldiers Field. But those who lasted saw the Crimson receive solid pitching performances from six different hurlers, who limited the visitors to only seven hits and three runs over nine innings...