Word: volcano
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Volcano Lover: A Romance, Sontag's first book in 25 years, focuses on Sir William Hamilton (Sontag calls him the Cavaliere throughout the book). Cavaliere is the British ambassador to Naples, a rabid collector of potpourri and vulcanist who married his first wife Catherine for money. After Catherine's death, the Cavaliere falls in love with Emma; through a strange twist, however, she turns around and finds love in a young British admiral...
...Volcano Lover: A Romance by Susan Sontag $22.00, from Farrar, Strus and Girous Publishers...
...novel is good, but it's not Sontag at her best. Though she shuns it, the temptation to contrast Volcano Lover with her earlier work is irresistible. Sontag--the same woman who was influenced by the novels and plays of Batille and Artaud and the philosophy of Sartre, Camus, Lukacs, Barthes and Canetti--has turned her back on the present by ignoring the history of her work...
...report in Nature suggests that nature can help the process along. Ozone depletion was expected to be reasonably mild in 1991; instead, it was severe. That year also saw major eruptions by Mount Hudson in Chile and Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines. Volcanoes release enormous amounts of dust. Dust, along with ice crystals, provides surfaces where ozone-destruction chemistry works most efficiently. Unfortunately, while the industrial world is phasing out CFCs before the turn of the century, other compounds are also ozone destroyers -- and volcano control is somewhat farther...
...Kind of Woman at 5:45 and 9:30 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 5. The Sorceress at 5:15 and 8 p.m. and From the Eagle's Nest at 4:30 and 7:15 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 6. Barfly at 4 and 8 p.m. and Under the Volcano at 5:50 and 9:45 p.m. on Wednesday...