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...outsider is Alex, who meets Dan at the party. A business conference and a rainstorm reintroduce them that weekend while Beth and Ellen are in the country house hunting. Across the restaurant dinner table, Alex seems so hungry for him that you can hear her stomach rumble. "You're here with a strange girl being a naughty boy," she tells him, perhaps before he has even flirted with a naughty thought. But Dan is a man, and pathetically ordinary. From curiosity or concupiscence, from boredom or weakness, he goes to her apartment. Next thing, they are making...
...movies, including The Wackiest Ship in the Army and The Caine Mutiny, tapes of David Niven reading his memoirs (The Moon's a Balloon; Bring On the Empty Horses), and a model of the Titanic that for some unexplained reason was glued together on deck during a heavy rainstorm. Such behavior might be attributed to the decision to pack 50 cases of beer and 32 cases of wine into the hull of the chartered 71-ft. ketch Sealestial (Buckley discourses widely and brilliantly on many points of big- league sailing, although not, unfortunately, on punning for boat names, a practice...
...second was even more impressive. Fighting a rainstorm and a muddy field last night at Springfield College, the Harvard men's lacrosse team mounted a deluge of shots at the Maroons' net and swept away the hosts...
...across the immense African landscape, from the distant escarpment, a gray-purple rainstorm blows. It encroaches upon the sunlight, moving through the air like a dark idea. East Africa has a genius for such moments. Wildlife and landscape here have about them a force of melodrama and annunciation. They are the Book of Genesis enacted as an afternoon dream...
...farmer named Jim Trench was driving around his place near Mount Kenya one day in a rainstorm, showing the visitor the giraffes that share the land with his livestock. He remarked, "Africa would not be Africa without the wild animals...