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Last week 100 tenants braved a thunderstorm and tornado warning to do some storming at the town hall. Said Mrs. Karyn Pick, who has a five-year-old son: "It's the most horrendous and inhumane thing a man could do." The lawmakers seem to agree. The village board is expected to pass an ordinance this week prohibiting Sparks' head...
...reality. From the initial credits on, one is not permitted to forget that the infinite number of European courts in which the action takes place were all constructed in Cinecitta ("movie city") just outside of Rome. In one sequence, Casanova rows a boat across the Venetian lagoon in a thunderstorm; he holds no oars, sits in no boat, and the wildly surging waves are obviously green plastic. The stock sound of water-in-a-storm fills the air... or is it the sound of plastic bags in a gale? Nature blurs into artifice. Casanova is first seen costumed...
While the black thunderstorm that rained out the 1975 opener against pushover MIT may have been a harbinger of the flood that was to follow, Ford's spirits remained high. "We're farther along now than we were at this time last year," he said after a 3-0 opening victory over Wesleyan...
...What makes me run?" Bailey has written. "I burn, dammit, that's why. I like to run." It is the same with flying. Bailey almost never delays a flight in his own aircraft. "It goes no matter what," and the "what" may be rain, snow, ice, fog, turbulence, thunderstorm or some combination thereof. One white-knuckled regular on these flights reports that Bailey invariably ends the hairiest trips by chortling: "Well, we've defeated the grim reaper once again...
...matter what the radar said, he had been driving no faster than 25 m.p.h. in Los Alamos, N. Mex. Home he went to consult some books, and a few weeks later he ex plained to Judge Raymond E. Hunter that he had been nabbed about ten minutes before a thunderstorm, just when the oncoming electricity creates ionized particles in the air that can throw radar out of kilter. Case dismissed...