Word: updrafts
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...winds in the so-called boundary layer--the part of the atmosphere closest to earth--blow more gently than winds at higher elevations. These two wind streams push on the layer of air that lies between them as though it were an invisible rolling pin. Then, as the warm updraft that powers a supercell shoots toward the stratosphere, it tilts the rolling pin so that it spins on its end. Soon the updraft starts to spin, giving birth to a mesocyclone, a rotating column of air as wide as six miles...
...Last Train to Memphis: The Rise of Elvis Presley by Peter Guralnick (Little, Brown). The author, a music critic, follows the self-created rock hero as he is borne to platinum paradise on a great celebrity updraft -- this despite Miss Marmann, his eighth-grade music teacher, who told him he couldn't sing worth a lick and gave him a C. Guralnick writes evocatively and sympathetically of Presley's first wild fame -- That's All Right, Mama, his first recording, made him a millionaire -- and tracks the star through the shattering death of his mother Gladys and his entry into...
...seminal Sun Records, called that elusive core the place "where the soul of man never dies." Presley would never have put it in such high-flown terms. When That's All Right, Mama became a hit, he simply let himself be borne heavenward in the great celebrity updraft. hurry home, he wired his high school sweetheart, Dixie Locke, who was on a family vacation in Florida. my record is doing great. Two years later Variety declared Presley a millionaire...
...forget her gauzy white skirt billowing over a subway-grating updraft in The Seven Year Itch? Alas, New York police confirmed the outfit is missing and presumed stolen from a Manhattan warehouse. Also gone: some letters written by the actress to her acting coach, Lee Strasberg...
...beat Rodney King and the scheduled trial this summer of three black men charged with assaulting white truck driver Reginald Denny, will determine just how much anger is pent up in the city's poor districts. In the well-off neighborhoods, the fear of new riots rose on an updraft of rumor. This time the gangs would not be content to bounce the rubble in their own neighborhoods but would descend instead on the suburbs. On a radio call-in show, a young gang member said he plans to raid the "three Bs," meaning the rich domains of Brentwood...