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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Chance of rain, low 55 to 65, high...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WEATHER | 9/8/1997 | See Source »

...There was one magic moment, really, after that speech. When he finished, there was this complete silence. Then, you were listening, from inside the abbey, and you heard this patter ?it sounded like rain. What was happening? And then you realized it was applause, that had started outside the abbey doors, in the crowd. And then it began to spread inside. It was like a wind, like a wave, that came in, and up through the pews, and then receded until it was outside again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Earl's Eulogy Slams Press, Royals | 9/6/1997 | See Source »

...patent-leather suit pumped full of air. "He told me he wanted to make me look like the Michelin Man," says Elliott. "I was like, 'Excuse me?' And he was like, 'Trust me. It's going to be hot.'" Try scorching. The Williams-directed music video for The Rain (Supa Dupa Fly), the first single off Elliott's debut album, Supa Dupa Fly, features the singer in that weird, bulbous leather suit, as well as surreally distorted camera shots and dancers prancing in shiny yellow raincoats. MTV has been playing it steadily, propelling the previously little-known Elliott...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NEW VIDEO WIZARDS | 9/1/1997 | See Source »

WASHINGTON, D.C.: Can't stand the rain? You're not alone. Neither can the B-2 Stealth Bomber. The Air force admitted today that the fleet of famously radar-invisible planes ? which cost the taxpayer $1.5 billion a pop ? doesn't like going out when it's wet, because it damages the special radar-absorbing paint. A report from the General Accounting Office, the investigative arm of Congress, said the coating quickly degrades and loses its "invisibility" when exposed to rain or humidity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THURSDAY: Stealth Bomber Ain't Singing in the Rain | 8/21/1997 | See Source »

...Force ? described by Thompson as "beyond embarassment" ? is at pains to point out the plane can still fly non-stop from the United States to any overseas target. That is, anywhere it doesn't rain. Good thing the Iraqi desert is pretty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THURSDAY: Stealth Bomber Ain't Singing in the Rain | 8/21/1997 | See Source »

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