Word: squalls
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...curtain closes on the prologue, and acrobats, like an avalanche of oranges, come tumbling at the camera, with jugglers and parti-colored harlequins who set the screen to flailing like a crazy quilt in a squall. Enter the mime again, this time with bells on his ankles, wrists and cap, to do a little foot-about that is charmingly reminiscent of the lady in the nursery rhyme who has music wherever she goes, and then a gay bacchanal as the villagers join...
Winslow Homer's A Summer Squall, painted on the coast of Maine, catches the sudden gusts of raw wind, turning the sea into a churning cauldron of menacing green and white caps. Frederic Sackrider Remington's The Scout is the epitome of high adventure in the old Wild West, breathing romance that decades of western movie thrillers have failed to dull. Both paintings are just the thing to make any passing motorist feel that the stop was highly worth while...
...combination of hot air and cold political calculation can stir up a squall in almost any year, and such were the ingredients of the storm that swirled around the head of Vice President Richard Nixon. The cold calculation came from the Democrats, who have long made Nixon their favorite target. The hot air came principally from columnists and other pundits who reasoned that the Democrats had made Nixon a political liability and therefore Ike might drop him from the ticket. For Nixon, it was like being in the eye of a hurricane...
...storm over U.S. foreign policy. In charge was Georgia's Walter George, who had called the unusual open session of the Foreign Relations Committee primarily to find out about the off-again, on-again Saudi Arabian tank shipment. But it was obvious from one look at the squall line of Democratic liberals (Minnesota's Hubert Humphrey, Alabama's John Sparkman, Arkansas' Bill Fulbright) at the end of the committee table-busy conferring around piles of books, maps, clippings and notes-that much more than that was coming...
...airplane did not go away, and neither did Mitchell. Topping a series of crashes, the Navy airship, the Shenandoah, was ripped apart in an Ohio line squall. Thirteen officers and men were killed. Two days later Mitchell dropped a journalistic blockbuster. "These accidents," he announced to the press, "are the result of the incompetency, the criminal negligence and the almost treasonable administration of our national defense by the Navy and War Departments...