Word: rain
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Southern California can be seen as a huge fire trap. If it were a building, it would fail inspection. Every year for five months virtually no rain falls. And every year from mid-September to November the weather system overhead jerks into reverse -- instead of blowing from the Pacific landward, it blows westward, from Utah to the sea. The winds superheat in the Mojave Desert. Then, in hundreds of canyons leading coastward from the mountains, they can accelerate up to 75 m.p.h. If California is lucky, the Santa Anas, as they are called, merely annoy, ushering in what author Joan...
...Graveyard On Halloween night just before the witching hour, I rose from Biology texts and stumbled across the Yard. Dressed in a purple rubberized rain suit from head to toe, I set off to the Old Burying Ground in search of the occult. The rain was falling in sheets. Leaping the iron fence with little finesse, I landed, fully expecting the Prince of Darkness to be waiting. I sat by a tree and watched as rain drops landed on silent tombstones. My adventurous spirit began to subside as the reality of this evening began to sink in. There were...
...Brookline. 734-2500. On Thursday, Nov. 11 "It's All True" at 1, 2:50, 4:40, 6:25, 8:10 and 9:55. "Manhattan Murder Mystery" at 3:05 and 7. "Tito and Me" at 5. "In the Line of Fire" at 9:05. "Singing in the Rain...
...company desperately needs a hit, and Billboards -- loud, generous of spirit, heart-on-sleeve romantic -- looks to be it. Last week the 4,800-seat Northrop was nearly sold out. The kids in the balcony squealed as if at a rock concert, not only for Prince megahits like Purple Rain but for the Joffrey's male corps when they circled the stage in spectacular split leaps...
Arpino was wise to put this little fancy first. Because the costumes are glistening white and the women wear chignons, the classical echoes are clear when the scene shifts to the street. Moulton, on the other hand, establishes himself on the corner right away. Thunder/Purple Rain is a variant on the familiar sex-and-salvation theme. Elizabeth Parkinson plays a sort of fairy who transforms bystanders into lovers with a wand crowned, rather like a car's hood ornament, by a heart. Unfortunately, Moulton makes the song Purple Rain into a dismal solo that looks arduous to dance and provides...