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...lush seriousness of his prose, Lowry was quite aware of the ridiculous, troublesome figure he cut for most of his 47 years. A touch of buffoonery even creeps into Under the Volcano, that hellish pressure cooker of a novel that was his only important work...
...first rumblings last May. Since then, fishermen in the area have reported giant explosions and great whirlpools in the sea. Now the source of all this spectacular activity in the Pacific, 590 miles south of Tokyo, has come into view. With a series of deafening explosions, a newly born volcano has reared out of the sea, adding another small island to the Iwo Jima chain. After flying over the belching volcano last week, Japanese officials reported that the northern edge of the doughnut-shaped crater has risen some 160 ft. above sea level and the southern edge about...
...volcano has stopped spewing lava, but it is still giving off a column of steamy white vapor that rises several hundred feet...
...better understand the mechanics of this hidden process, the Japanese researchers are extremely eager to collect the volcano's ashes, which originate in the earth's mantle below the ocean floor...
Hardest hit were the villages and small towns near Mexico's highest peak, the 18,700-ft. Orizaba volcano. In Veladero, a village of 2,000 people, only 20 of its 280 houses were left standing. In Orizaba, an industrial town near Veracruz, a three-story building was split in two, killing 19 people. Village after village offered the same vision of destruction and tragedy: young and old sifting through piles of adobe rubble, looking for something to salvage; men balancing wooden coffins on their heads, on the way to pick up their dead...