Word: tornados
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Farther east, Milwaukee suffered its worst blizzard in 35 years, with 33 m.p.h. winds driving 16 in. of fresh snow; 6 in. had fallen earlier. The city was paralyzed for a day. Georgia was beset by heavy rains and flooding, and a tornado whirled through Newton, Miss. (pop. 3,556), killing one man and injuring...
Certain American neighborhoods once possessed a similar palpable soul, the neighborhood being the urban apartment dweller's substitute for an ancestral house and grounds. In a sense, it is the soul that Americans yearn after when they think of houses. After an earthquake or tornado, the news always lists the dead, the missing and the "homeless," the last being considered itself a kind ol wound a private desolation. We all drive past the house where 'we grew up and stare at it oddly, with a strange ache, as if to extract some meaning from it that has been...
...Taiwan government suggests that Chen committed suicide. Colleagues and compatriots in the U.S. suspect that he was killed by the government-and fear they might be next. Says Lu Wang, 40, a data-processing analyst in New York City: "The Chen case has hit us like a tornado. In every heart there is fear. The case is not an isolated instance...
...pervasive. Says Peter Bensinger, outgoing administrator of the DEA: "We see coke sales in suburbs, in recreational centers and in national parks. It is an unrecognized tornado." Nor does this overstate the case. A special investigative team of TIME correspondents found that in Vienna, Ga., or Venice, Calif., a gram of coke was about as hard to find as a six-pack of Bud. Whether in a suburban high school outside Los Angeles, on Wall Street or Madison Avenue or in the interstices of ostensibly "straight" Middle America, $100 will rapidly summon up a gram of what goes for cocaine...
...white tornado seems to have hit Hollywood particularly hard. At this spring's Oscar ceremony, Johnny Carson remarked: "The biggest moneymaker in Hollywood last year was Colombia. Not the studio-the country." Reports abound of coked-up parties and drugged-out meetings. Earlier this year, TV Guide lent a degree of credence to such talk in a two-part series concluding that, among other things, cocaine was partly responsible for the low quality of television programming inflicted upon Americans. Though the articles were understandably short on names and specifics, the House Select Committee on Narcotics Abuse and Control somewhat...