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...town was physically untouched by the war until early 1945, when we began hearing the distant thunder of artillery from the eastern front. In February, during the devastating Allied air raids against Dresden, 100 km away, we saw the night skies light up to the northwest. The big bomber streams, gatherings of silvery dots against the sky, routinely rumbled past as we watched from the backyard; air-raid sirens sounded, but the planes were not targeting a little town of no industrial or military significance. For me and my neighborhood friends, the most dramatic exposure to reality came...
...April 18. At 7:45 the next morning, her mother left her at the federal building's day-care center and went off to her new job at an insurance company. "She was learning how to walk," Aren says, her voice breaking. When she heard the explosion, Aren thought, "Thunder in the middle of the day?" Then she saw it was the federal building. "And then we heard that they had found a baby with yellow booties, and I knew it was her." The family wants to keep Baylee's funeral private. "We don't want any press there," says...
...concert hit its peak when Springsteen joined her for a tender, mournful rendition of his classic rock anthem Thunder Road. It was a magical moment-spontaneous, liberating, passionate. At one point, Etheridge fumbled the words near the end of the song. So, to the delight of the crowd, she and Springsteen performed the song again-flawlessly. It proved, once more, that you don't need to be plugged in to generate electricity...
...contrast, the next best seller came out in 1993. It's The Thunder of Justice. It's part of the apocalyptic end time literature." The book explores the idea that the end of the world is fast approaching and that humanity should behave accordingly, he says. "It's pretty controversial...
...Michelle Pfeiffer, 1995 Woman of the Year, now steps out of the limousine to the thunder clap of one thousand camera shutters. Sporting a black beret and black sunglasses to set off her shiny blonde locks, the goddess is hoisted into the back seat by a jealous drag queen. She looks stunned. One reporter yells, "Michelle--give us a wave!" and she obliges, as another thunder clap of shutters captures the divine moment for posterity. Her devotees, the clowns of this star-gazing circus, go crazy...