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...some that when the crooner went solo in 1956, he not only could get movie roles but could fill them handsomely. They were, to be sure, tailored to his talent--alcoholics and playboys--and in them he moved easily: as the cowardly G.I. in The Young Lions or the sodden gambler in Some Came Running. He spends most of 1959's Rio Bravo, his best film, staring mournfully at a whiskey bottle he'd like to suck dry. Defeat glazes his eyes; it's the rare movie portrait of an alcoholic that skirts both sensation and sentiment...
Ljubica Milic was drenched with rain last Wednesday as she sat with her two sleeping children at an abandoned gas station on the road between Banja Luka, the largest city in Serb-held Bosnia, and Belgrade. As an equally sodden string of refugees streamed past, the young Serb from the Croatian village of Obrovac explained how she had been tricked by a war profiteer into making the worst deal of her life. "All I had was 200 deutsche marks [$139]," she says in a voice devoid of emotional inflection. "He asked me for 500 deutsche marks...
...additional flooding was expected southwest of Houston as floodwaters of the Brazos River made their way to the Gulf of Mexico. But by Friday, some residents in many other parts of the region were at least able to return home and begin gauging the devastation. They wrestled sodden carpets, mattresses, couches and other waterlogged items onto their washed-out lawns and scrubbed the smears of mud and slime from their walls. The true size of the loss, however, remains hidden for now. "Until the water fully recedes," said Houston's mayor Bob Lanier, "we cannot even estimate total damage...
...afternoon ended damply. Around 4 p.m. in the afternoon, the same time major races started, it began to rain. Traffic congestion and panic were the immediate results of the downpour, as cars poured out of a newly sodden Cambridge
Nonetheless, there are times when the sight of the iron-grey ceiling we used to call the sky, and the voice of the meteorologist calling for another thunderstorm, and the thought of pulling on sodden boots for a trek across campus conspire to make Harvard students wish that they had chosen to pursue their higher education in warmer climes. Suddenly, California earthquakes don't seem...