Word: storm
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...winter storm watch was called into effect yesterday afternoon for much of northern New England, potentially foiling travel plans for students heading for home for winter break...
Schools are closed, flights have been canceled and the National Guard is helping to clear roads in Buffalo after a heavy storm dumped almost three feet of snow on this frigid city in western New York over the weekend. TIME's Andy Danzo reports: "This storm was very strong and it has created some problems. Schools and colleges are closed, which doesn't usually happen. The main roads have been cleared, but side streets and rural roads are problematic. Officials have asked people with four-wheel drive vehicles to volunteer to deliver supplies and medicine to people who are snowed...
...John Conklin, the stage consists of a large, off-white, semicircular structure in the middle of a desolate landscape. The structure, which looks like a huge, broken astronomical instrument, looks both beautiful and out of place on the desert island. This fantastic stage, which contrasts with the brief, dramatic storm scene that opens the play, is where the bulk of the action takes place...
Perhaps the greatest strength of this unconventional production of "The Tempest" is Freeman's strong conventional performance. Prospero is a magician exiled from his dukedom who seeks revenge. When the men who betrayed him are near the shore of his island, he sends a storm to wreck their ship and bring them all onto the shore. As he plans revenge, oversees the engagement of his daughter Miranda (Jessalyn Gilsig) to Prince Ferdinand of Naples (Scott Ripley) and foils Caliban's plot against his life, Freeman evokes every doubt, conviction and emotion Prospero experiences. He is temperamental and harsh with...
Perhaps officials unschooled in architecture couldn't distinguish Carey's frame from a ski lodge (which, admittedly, it did rather resemble). Nevertheless, the storm of protest from experts in the field of design should have been more fully considered. As architectural historian Douglass Shand-Tucci '72 complained, "Even the crudest person would realize that it's not very good for Harvard to be dumping on its history this...