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...sounds of praise and ecstatic celebration filled Lowell House's Junior Common Room yesterday as about 70 people joined in a tribute to Shango, the spirit of lightning and thunder in the Santeria tradition...
...Thunder may roll, lightning may flash, the wind may blow, but we must never leave the American house. This is our house," he said...
...buzz of flies from a carcass." The memories, eloquently relived and regretted, are of grotesque cultural arrogance, unraveling in a very small place. Rumblings of the Congo's struggle for independence from Belgium--and U.S. plotting to assassinate Patrice Lumumba, the new nation's first Prime Minister--are distant thunder in Kingsolver's tale. Her story, a symbolic parallel to the national upheaval, takes place in an isolated village. Nathan Price, an evangelical Baptist preacher, fanaticism in bitter parody, lugs his wife, daughters and rigid preconceptions to Kilanga, a small jungle settlement, where faith plays out as farce...
...while brown ends and a black middle mean a mild fall and early spring but a harsh midwinter. Each fog forming in August foretells a measurable snowfall. Thick corn shucks also mean a cold winter. The last three days of January portend weather for the next three months, and thunder in February means there will be a frost 90 days later...
There's a scary moment during tonight's WCW Thunder wrestling program: a referee collapses and is rushed to the hospital. He's not part of the show. He's a football ref, and he's in a commercial touting University of North Carolina Health Care. Channel surf in Raleigh-Durham and you can see an artsy black-and-white ad featuring a country singer who doesn't have the usual complaints of "heartbreak"--brought to you by the WakeMed hospital's new Heart Center in Raleigh. Or a Duke ad--the sort of tasteful, care-focused spot...