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...island was named by Columbus for the great mountaintop monastery in northeastern Spain. Montserrat has a mildly active volcano, Galway Soufriere, which huffs and puffs sulfurous fumes...
Standing in a row, they look prim, proper and more than a little abashed, like three Palm Beach socialites turning up in the same Pucci. In their January issues, the Smithsonian, Scientific American and National Geographic all appeared with cover photos showing a volcano erupting on Jupiter's moon lo. Though having look-alike covers is an editor's nightmare that all too frequently comes true, the science magazines' trifecta was an interplanetary long shot. The picture is a computer composite of images radioed to earth by Voyager 1 last March. The three monthlies (total circ...
...however, the petrified images produced by late 19th and early 20th century photography are tragically apposite. The Russian people were living under a volcano: "A rumbling, fire-spitting mountain, down whose sides, behind clouds of ashes, roll streams of red-hot lava," as the poet Alexander Blok perceived Russia in 1908. When the final eruption came in October 1917, it engulfed the nation's past. The Russian Empire's vigorous intellectual life, its fantastic cultural diversity-even the distinctive imprint of its history-were effaced...
...screen fills with hundreds of colored shapes spinning like a crayola volcano dancing the twist. The Electric Horseman, starring Robert Redford and Jane Fonda, is not scheduled to start for ten minutes yet the balding accountant three seats down already has his right hand in bucket of popcorn; his other inching up his wife's sweater, his eyes aimed at the screen. The color pattern repeats itself on the black screen, revolving twice with a one and a half twist like a lasarium with hiccups. Everyone in the theater, not just the accountant, watches the screen as if something were...
...drink. Lunch offered a choice of Tournedos Rossini or Chicken Sauvaroff, plus a special meringue dessert named Peach Erebus. That dish was to be served as the aircraft passed one of the most spectacular sights of the trip: 12,400-ft. Mount Erebus, the polar region's largest volcano, located on Ross Island off the Antarctic coast. (Erebus in Greek mythology was the son of Chaos and represented unfathomable darkness...