Word: seismicity
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...damage to the plant or much of anything else in New England. But the temblor must have caused shudders of delight in Washington. For once the Nuclear Regulatory Commission had guessed right. Maine Yankee was one of five power plants on the East Coast, not known for its seismic risks, that it had ordered temporarily shut down last month ?only two weeks before the Three Mile Island nightmare. Reason: to check their ability to stand up to a major earthquake...
...thorough funk that their songs sounded fresh off the streets. It is worth keeping in mind that at the time of the first major Leiber-Stoller hit, Hound Dog, released by Willie Mae ("Big Mama") Thornton in 1953, pop music had its own kind of enforced segregation. The sudden, seismic synthesis of mainstream pop and down-home rhythm and blues was performed by Elvis Presley, who took R&B, fused it with a little country raunch and came up with rock 'n' roll. Even the generic name was a perfect synthesis: black slang, applied to the raucous music...
...drums, Garry Tallent's sinuous, serpentine bass lines and the roistering guitar of Miami Steve Van Zandt form the firm foundation. The wailing, extravagant sax solos by Clarence Clemens cut jolting, joking arabesques around the Boss's lead guitar and vocals, which are the main attraction, and the most seismic in the business...
DIED. Thomas C. Poulter, 81, polymath who served as the scientific director on Rear Admiral Richard Byrd's second expedition to the Antarctic in 1933, invented seismic methods for the discovery of oil, and recorded the voices of sea mammals over the past 15 years; in Menlo Park, Calif. Poulter led the party that saved Byrd's life when the admiral, living alone near the South Pole, suffered from carbon-monoxide poisoning and began sending incoherent radio messages...
Volcanically speaking, the eruption of Vesuvius on Aug. 24, A.D. 79, was a squib compared with the more recent explosions of Krakatoa or Mont Pelée. But no seismic event has ever had wider cultural repercussions. Buried under 12 ft. of deadly ash and scoriae, the city of Pompeii-a flourishing town on the Bay of Naples, filled with rich men's villas, tradesmen's houses and the workshops of the poor-was in the moment of its snuffing-out turned into the most complete social time capsule left by the Roman world. Since major excavations...