Word: tornados
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...voice, devouring me like so much eye candy with an unabashed lust so palpable that I could feel it on my skin. I also saw he was nervous, and I found that endearing. He shouted good-bye to my family (they seemed subdued, as in the wake of a tornado), ushered me quickly out the door and helped me into a hired sedan with a driver he introduced by name (which impressed...
...childhood, both of which were spent in Omaha, Neb. Rips discovered, for starters, that his father was raised in a brothel, which was run by Rips' great-grandparents. He revisited some vivid memories of his own childhood: a local handyman who always walked down stairs backward, a tornado that sucked his grandmother up through a garbage chute. When he was 9 years old, Rips watched a circus acrobat plunge to her death from a 50-ft. pole. (Naked Lady shares a kind of adolescent gothic vibe with Frank Conroy's excellent Stop-Time...
...layman’s eye, my room looks like a tornado hit it. But I know exactly where each vitally important item is. For example, my overdue library books are in the sock drawer...
...Number of tornado warnings issued in a 24-hour period by the National Weather Service office in Tallahassee, Fla., during Hurricane Ivan...
...TIME correspondent who worked for Murray Gart, who became chief of the Time-Life News Service in 1969, remembers him as a "force of nature." Others might be more specific and not always complimentary. But whether Murray came on like a raging tornado or a relentlessly pressing tide, his presence always drove those around him toward better journalism. Gart, who died on March 31, was the chief of TIME's team of correspondents until 1978, in an era marked by the Vietnam War, Watergate, turbulence in the Middle East and the nuclear-arms race. Reporting by the media was intense...