Word: rained
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...These children can frighten you," says Rocky Morris, a fireman at Engine 16. He is interrupted by the crash of a vase thrown through a living-room window 16 stories above his head. As shards of glass rain onto the parking lot, Morris shoots a sardonic look toward a teenager whose face pokes through the shattered window. "We'll find who did that, and we'll work with that person," he says. "We can address them because most of us were raised in these projects." He pauses, then offers a comment that his colleagues would surely echo. "You know...
...then the hysteria? This El Nino appeared from early data to be particularly strong. Hence the emergency preparations everywhere from California to South Africa. The major anticipated event for California is heavy rain. Some meteorologists, however, remain skeptical and distinctly unimpressed by the grim Noachian predictions. For example, Jan Null of the National Weather Service in Monterey, Calif., points out that in the eight heaviest El Nino years, California experienced on average only about a one-third increase in rainfall. In fact, two of these years, 1965 and 1991, brought drought...
...project. Again, his cinematic imagery, without being particularly inventive, has a certain visceral power: a walk through a fish-market, capturing a weird, peculiarly nauseating kind of carnality, serves to underscore Milly's physical fragility; the sunlight and warm, golden-tinted colors of Venice give way to driving rain and bleak grayness as Milly's impending discovery of Kate's and Merton's treachery looms near. To complete the contrast, the London sequences framing the Venetian interlude are marked by constant rain and dark, confining clothes...
...Brody rain on this pill-popping parade? "My major hope was to awaken the public to the fact that vitamins and other supplements are not always innocent," she says. "I'm often asked by people, 'Should I take this vitamin?' 'Am I taking enough of that?' Even 'Can I take vitamins instead of antibiotics...
Here for First-year Parents weekend, one mother strove to visit her son in Thayer Hall last Saturday. But, in a Yard jam-packed with throngs of political activists, tourists, trick-or-treaters and those seeking refuge from the rain, it was not quite that simple for her to get to her son, Christian P. Quilici...