Word: skies
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...plastic-explosive charges blasted more openings from the tunnels into the interior of the residence. Still others blew open on each side of the building's exterior, and one ripped up the back garden. "The whole house shook like cardboard," an army lieutenant says, and smoke billowed into the sky as automatic weapons clattered...
Just one more reason not to live in Los Angeles. It seems there's an active volcano under Wilshire Boulevard, and is it steamed! It blows spitballs of lava up through manhole covers. It sends fire chunks into the sky, as if in a malefic Disney World spectacle, and has them land on prime Beverly Hills real estate. It not only exhales scalding air, it also sucks it back in. This monster, writhing undead in its coffin, has a personality. It even growls, basso profundo; imagine Barry White slowly murmuring "Booo...
Jenkins offers a different justification in his own life-transforming encounter with poetry: "I realized that a lot of the things that I remembered as I was walking along the street or staring up at the sky were lines of poetry; the words would float up into my mind unbidden...[Poetry] provided a way of understanding the world...
WATERTOWN, Mass.--Heading west on Mt. Auburn Street from Cambridge, the scenery undergoes a subtle change. Shops and commercial property remain in full view, but buildings don't obscure the sky and parking lots separate the stores...
...curious as to whether anyone is following your advice or heeding your warnings. "People's reading habits are a murky subject," he says. "Unless you catch people in the act, you really have no idea of what's actually happening. There were times when I praised books to the sky and never saw a copy of them in public. It makes you wonder." As a writer, he says, he's "cautiously encouraged" to believe that the latest spurt in reading is a long-term change and not one of those "eight-month trends that, once it's finished, leaves...