Word: rains
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While these technologies beat praying for rain, they may not be enough to save the crops if the drought continues another year. Says Chuck Shoemaker of the California water department: "It's a little like rolling dice or cutting cards. The odds were very long against having two years in a row like this. They're just the same against three years...
...barren rock. It is inhabited only by about 400 wild goats. To the U.S. Navy, the island is an ideal target range; since 1941, pilots have blasted it with millions of tons of bombs, shells and rockets. But to native Hawaiians, Kahoolawe is sacred ground, home of the gentle rain goddess Hina...
...Paris, Serge Lepage showed his collection for the House of Schiaparelli in a grandiose public display. A massive outside staircase was erected to the couture house's second floor, and the models-making their entrances from the windows-emerged into the Paris rain and wind. Olympic torches on the landings blew in the wind as the mannequins in their capes and lavishly embroidered chasubles stood with arms outstretched like sacrificial victims...
...this is not to say that Les Sauvages has no charm. Somehow in the midst of the dizzying swirl of traffic and rain, perfume industrialists and mango trees, a few beautiful moments manage to emerge. When Nelly (the crazy blonde) and Martin (the former perfume magnate) are alone on the island, he calls her up on the phone that connects two straw huts to invite her to dinner and she insists that she is really much, much too busy. She is eating a peach and thumbing absentmindedly through an old magazine. When we discover that Martin is not just...
...summer, Carew putters in the yard. Come autumn, he cleans the rain gutters and in winter, the man from Panama shovels snow. Carew is rooted now, and the mercurial moods that marked his early career seldom surface. "When I ask Charryse what Daddy does, she says, 'Daddy strikes out. I explain to her that Daddy doesn't strike out very often. But how can you get mad at fans when your own kids knock you? I leave my game at the park. When I go home to play with my kids, they don't care...