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...Lewis River were lowered. Meanwhile, scientists and residents kept watching anxiously to see just how angry Mount St. Helens would get. Said Kurt Austermann of the U.S. Forest Service: "We don't want to panic anybody, but nobody really knows whether it's going to start spitting thunder eggs or just lay down and go back to sleep...
Martin Luther was the lightning of the Protestant Reformation; John Calvin was its thunder. John was only eight in 1517 when the 95 theses were nailed up on a Wittenberg church door. Within 30 years he would rise to succeed Luther as leader of the Reformation, codifying what the master often conveyed with rhetoric. Calvin's lifelong opus, Institutes of the Christian Religion, as he boasts in this vigorous biographical novel, grew to be as long as ''the Old Testament plus a good part...
...Babilonia and Randy Gardner are like thunder and lightning put together-electric! Watching them skate makes you proud they're Americans...
...CLATTERING OF RIFLES has filled every forum of this campaign season like the overture to a blood-and-thunder opera, full of strident and hackneyed themes, but nonetheless ominous. Candidates speak glibly of the nation's military needs, haggle in public advertisements over who would hand the Pentagon the most money, and discuss "limited nuclear war" as casually as the latest poll. Proposals to lower unemployment or slow inflation litter the floors of New Hampshire auditoriums, mowed down by exorbitantly priced arsenals of MX missiles, B-1 bombers and "rapid deployment forces...
Every court must have a king. Jerome Robbins is the monarch of West Side Story. Beyond that, he is the Jove of theater choreography. His dances are thunder bolts of invention, and his dancers are the messengers of his precise, uncompromising will. From the faintest twitch of a shoulder to hurricane tides of mass action, he is the master of the rhetoric of bodily motion. He can turn his dancers into airborne balletic Ariels who touch the ground merely to skip skyward again...