Word: raine
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dense cloak. On the twelfth floor, Nancy Brensson, 12, of Cresskill, N.J., was watching a rerun of The Carol Burnett Show while her mother was taking a shower. "Suddenly the room went dark," she said. "I looked out and saw this cloud. My father said that it was probably rain. But he opened the balcony door, and smoke rushed...
Tropical dry forests differ from rain forests in that their precipitation is seasonal. During the rainy period, the landscape is verdant, but during the five to six months of the year that are rainless (early December to mid-May in Costa Rica), many trees lose their leaves. Unlike the temperate zone's deciduous hardwood forests, however, they do not become fully dormant. Instead, the bare trees flower and bear fruit, which nourishes a variety of mammals and insects. Centuries ago, such vegetation covered 60% of the forest regions of Latin America, India, Southeast Asia, Africa and northern Australia...
...only 50 years ago? How touching our grandfathers' faith in the future seems, in our day of acid rain, exploding shuttles, decaying inner cities and general creeping dystopia. The mood is epitomized in objects like the male costume of the future dreamed up for Vogue -- a bearded figure in an immaculate white jumpsuit wearing a circular antenna as a halo on his head, John the Baptist among the insulators. Everything is streamlined, even objects that are screwed down and cannot move, so that America's breathless rush toward Utopia is clearly signified by things like a 1933 Raymond Loewy metal...
...gray autumn dusk outside, with just enough rain to keep the streets and sidewalks damp. As the hour approaches, radiators click on around the church. "This is typical," Chris Forrest says. "Lots of mistakes and people thinking they can't possibly...
...museum, and Aulenti was right to put it up high, closest to the light. "Light is impressionism," she says. "I wanted the light here to be felt as it was by the painters, to be experienced as it is in nature, up here where the sun shines and the rain falls...