Word: sirocco
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...Frutkin, an Ottawa-based author of three poetry collections and six novels, writes like a fresco sprung to life. You can feel the warmth of the sirocco, the wind that carries fine sand from the Sahara; smell the musty parchment of Cambiati's secret library; and taste the bitter elixirs peddled by the traveling troupe in the town's piazza. The action is broken into short chapters, making the plot trot along at a jaunty clip. Through Cambiati's alchemy and Archenti's reason, Frutkin examines the science of magic and the magic of science. He also keeps...
...occasional wrinkle, an odd hitch in these tidy instructions pops up in the form of a fierce local sirocco that hurls itself at cyclonic force across the plains of eastern Colorado. It moves as a solid wall of dust, opaque and hard on the nerves of any ill-informed motorist it happens to catch. All a fool can do in these circumstances is listen to the finish of the car being grit-blasted away. Even with the windows closed, the dirt piles up on the dashboard and gathers in the folds of clothes and collects on the tongue. Coming...
...parties in return for public-works contracts has uncovered what now seems to be the largest public-corruption scandal in modern European history. Operation Clean Hands, run by five judicial prosecutors from a warren of fusty offices in Milan, has swept through Italy's corridors of power like a sirocco. Once confined to Milan, Clean Hands has now reached 21 cities. More than 800 people have been arrested and an additional 1,000 are thought to be under investigation...
...moonless night in the Sicilian city of Palermo, a night filled with the sirocco, a torrid, noisy wind that blows in across the Mediterranean from the Sahara, moaning through the city's narrow streets and driving its inhabitants indoors. Few if any residents noticed as squads of armored cars raced through the streets and gun-toting officers cordoned off the city into three sections. Nor, except for the street cleaners, who were just beginning their rounds, did anyone see the law men begin rousing out of their beds and hustling off to jail the men whose names appeared...
...priced European imports out of the U.S. market. Italy's Fiat stopped selling here earlier this year, and Renault will no longer offer its Le Car in America. Although Volkswagen still makes Rabbits at its plant in Westmoreland, Pa., it imports only pricier models like the Jetta, Sirocco and Quantum...