Word: path
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this type. Everything is confronted directly and, though there is sameness, there are no clichés. There is even an occasional touch of Kipling in his prose: "Above the village the scant ruins of a castle sat on a fang of rock, accessible only by a precarious path above a 200 foot drop. From this seemingly impregnable strong hold Hassan-i-Sabbah, the 'Old Man of the Mountains,' had ruled . . . and his successors had sat like spiders at the center of their web, for 170 years until Hulagu and his Mongols stormed over the pass...
...Flute and their cohorts dig up laughs you'd only guessed at, reading the play. But the young lovers, too, keep their scenes from bogging down into indistinguishable, interchangeable laments: Sloan's strong-willed and-armed Helena gets a hapless Demetrius into a half-nelson, and literally dogs his path with a graphic spaniel imitation; Eric Elice and Marianne Owen as Lysander and Hermia separate "as may well be said becomes a virtuous bachelor and a maid" before they fall asleep, roll towards each other and exchange places before waking up. Even Linn-Baker's alien Puck adds comic touches...
...path that neighborhood youngsters had beaten across the elderly woman's backyard was irritating enough. But when the youths began picking her flowers as well, the lady grabbed her gun and began plinking away. Though no one was hurt, police were called and the parents prepared to press charges. In most cities, the result would have been a court proceeding and bad tempers all around. But in Columbus the matter was turned over to an informal mediation process called the Night Prosecutor's Program. Within two weeks, after a meeting refereed by a local citizen trained in mediation...
This crazy-quilt winter weather was the result of erratic changes in the usual pattern of westerly winds-especially the high-altitude jet stream-that whip across the U.S. Part of a broader global feature known as the circumpolar vortex, the winds in winter usually follow a sharply undulating path round the Northern Hemisphere, like the bottom of a whirling crinoline skirt. Sweeping northeast over the Pacific, the winds pick up warmth and moisture. Heading down again from the cold north, they cause heavy rain and snowstorms from the Rockies through the heartland to New England...
...late December meteorologists noticed another dramatic change. The upper-level westerlies south of the 35th parallel (from Southern California to North Carolina) had picked up speed while those north of it had slowed. The jet stream had edged to the south, along a path that was much less curved. Instead of sweeping north over the Pacific with a cargo of warm, moist air and dumping snow and rain on Alaska, Washington and Oregon, the westerlies now were aiming their punch directly at California. The result: Southern California was inundated for nine days by storms that brought a total...