Word: squall
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand. For all one knows that demon is simply the same instinct that makes a baby squall for attention. And yet it is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface one's own personality. Good prose is like a windowpane...
...candidacy (see following story). But politics aside, the movie's portrayal of Glenn aptly illustrates Kaufman's strategy in adapting Wolfe's book. In one of the author's best sentences, Glenn is described as "a lonely beacon of restraint and self-sacrifice in a squall of car crazies." In the movie, that line is given to Glenn to say, in a sweet and giggly exchange with his wife Annie, just as many of Wolfe's other observations have been converted into eminently playable dialogue. The resulting gain in intelligent self-awareness and wit adds...
...rising concern in the Northeast and Canada, Administration spokesmen have repeatedly insisted that nothing could really be done about acid rain and the industry-produced sulfur emissions allegedly behind them until all the scientific facts were in. Suddenly last week, however, facts came raining down like a summer squall, in effect making further scientific debate on what mainly causes the problem all but irrelevant...
...years ago a sudden squall on the water swamped Dartmouth's boat near the starting line in this race, and when last heard of, their program was still floundering...
Crew officials at UNH told reporters yesterday that the weather there was sunny and calm when a small flotilla of eight racing shells carrying 68 students, accompanied by coaches in three powered launches set out down the Oyster River which leads to the Bay. The squall that swamped the boats, the officials said came suddenly and without warning Officers at the Coast Guard station in Portsmouth, N.H. said, however, that gale warnings had been in effect earlier in the day and small craft were advised not to be on the water when the accident occurred...