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...climate: January temperatures plummet to 100° below, while August temperatures soar to 120° above. Nature shaped the land with a grim hand. In prehistoric times, Siberia was a vast ocean, and its topography still resembles that of a shallow sea bottom, raised at the edges by a saucer-rim of mountains, with few barriers against wind or sun. The flat landscape is banded by four distinct regions-the icy northern shelf of the tundra, where nothing grows except moss, lichen and dwarf shrub; the dense forest zone, or the taiga, where arctic birches sprout beside palm trees...
...bishop to a parish in Springfield, Ill., where a Roman Catholic priest might look a bit out of place in a $6,850, 105-m.p.h. white sports car with green leather upholstery. Last week the Vegas crowd threw Father Crowley a farewell party in the town's saucer-shaped Convention Center...
Like an Oyster. The church cost $1,250.000 (Wright's fee: $137,500). As with another latter-day Wright design, Manhattan's Guggenheim Museum, criticisms are harsh. To some observers it suggests a stadium, to others a brooding oyster or a flying saucer. "I can't decide whether it looks like it just got here or like it's just about to leave," muttered one viewer. Another critic grumbles that it is "too small for a bullfight, too large for a cockfight...
Walter Heller: The basic curve of the economy now is a saucer - and very shallow. There is an upturn coming within the next three to six months...
...Laburnum yellow," "Provence apricot,"), and infinite attention to detail and neatness, generally embracing the flapper trend, stunned the salon and sent reporters into paroxysms of joy. "But Marc Bohan is wonderful," cried a converted Eugenia Sheppard. "Five minutes after the show started, I felt like a cat before a saucer of cream...