Word: snow
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...apocalypse. In the distance greasy smoke spurts from torched oil wells, sending up dozens of black funnels that look like infernal tornadoes. Overhead the plumes merge to form a charcoal cloud that blocks out the sun. Flakes of white ash tumble from the sky like dry, malignant snow. "Some days are so dark," says a photographer who is covering the fires, "I have to use a flashlight at nine in the morning...
...recent predecessors as Governor, she has personally wooed the lawmakers, inviting them to breakfasts and lunches at the Governor's Greek-revival mansion. She talked state representative Pete Laney into releasing a lottery bill from his committee on state affairs by plying him with bagels and doughnuts. Her snow-white bouffant hairdo and folksy charm have become familiar at committee hearings, in which she often testifies. "The legislature is excited because at long last they're being paid attention to," says Richards' press secretary Bill Cryer...
...above sea level, two more babies who had died the night before were buried. The milk in their mothers' breasts had dried up because the women were ill nourished and exhausted from flight. So the infants were fed a little sugar dissolved in water melted from dirty snow. That drink gave them fatal diarrhea...
...classic black-and-white movie that captures the murky allegiances and moral ambiguity of Europe on the brink of war. All the treasured cinematic touches that convey a mood of incipient danger are present -- a dead Soviet agent in a waterfront brothel in Ostend, lonely footsteps muffled by the snow on a dark Berlin street, a worn leather satchel with a false bottom left in a Prague railway station. No, they do not make movies like that anymore. But in Dark Star, Alan Furst has replicated this idealized form, this image of Europe entwined in a web of malevolent ideology...
...holes. The Kurdish parliament building is also trashed and gaping with shell holes. No one knows what is going on, but everyone is catching fright, which soon sweeps the city as it is doing in all the other towns. On a street corner, Kurds have a snowball fight with snow out of a truck brought down from the mountains for drinking water. A young girl wandering in a yard hands the visitor a message. "For my brother in London, Ontario, Canada," she says. "Tell my brother Narwan we are very well...