Word: rainstorm
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Standing under an umbrella in a rainstorm, up to his knees in water, le grand Charles shouts: "Après le déluge...
Just getting the show abroad cost the International Council of New York's Museum of Modern Art $35,000. There are 77 pieces by 37 sculptors. Well, only 76, since Claes Oldenburg's Giant Hamburger got caught in a rainstorm. Wrote a French critic: "Even in a country that has no great culinary pride, an 8-ft.-wide hamburger of soggy casein and canvas is artistically unappetizing." Noguchi's two-ton Sun had to be floated up the Seine on a barge, and Calder's two-ton stabile Falcon required a derrick to hoist it over...
...made them miscalculate in the primaries. They may change the size or the nature of their samplings; they may speed up the process of taking their final polls., taking their samples closer to election day itself. But polling organizations are in a risky business, where a good Election Day rainstorm in a Democratic area can reverse carefully predicted results. In an election with as many unpredictables as this one, it will be a major accomplishment if the polls are able to foresee the outcome...
Beirut has four universities, and publishes more books and magazines than even Cairo. Next to tiny, oil-rich Kuwait, it has the highest per-capita income in the Arab world ($500 annually); yet public and social services are woefully inadequate. Every rainstorm knocks out the power and phone systems, and virtually no one pays income taxes except benighted foreign residents. The public schools are regarded as hopelessly inferior. Yet Lebanon also has the highest literacy rate in the Arab world, and parents starve themselves to send their children to private schools...
...plump 40, founded her cult among Northern Rhodesian tribesmen eleven years ago, after having-so she claimed-died and risen from the dead. As the story goes, the rapid spread of her fame dates from the day she ordered her followers to strip naked during a violent rainstorm. She said she would cleanse them of sin, but those beyond redemption would be struck dead by a bolt of lightning. According to the legend, no sooner had she spoken than lightning struck a nearby tree, killing two. As the story of the "miracle" spread, Alice's following snowballed...