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...which I mean, at what point in movie history did the small American city cease to be represented as a cozy, leafy place preoccupied by ice cream socials, sweetly goofy teenage romances and Ford roadsters decorated with funny ("Oh you kid") slogans? When did the bleakness and perpetually bad weather set in? When did it become the poisonous appendix of our body politic, the place where the dopers and drinkers, the dismal and the dysfunctional, collect to dream of the escapes they never quite manage...
...Sept. 4, 1939, 29 British planes set out to bomb battleships in the German port of Wilhelmshaven. The weather wasn't very good. Some of them bombed Wilhelmshaven, but some of them got lost and unloaded on Esbjerg instead, where there weren't any battleships and which, more to the point, is in Denmark. A woman was killed while making dinner...
...Navy Women’s Intersectional in Annapolis, Md. last weekend and placed 12th in a field of 19 teams with 194 points. St. Mary’s took first place with 76 points, winning nine of 20 races. The participating squads had to contend with harrowing weather. “The conditions were very, very weird on Saturday,” freshman Meghan Wareham said. “In fact, they were borderline ridiculous.” Saturday started off with thick fog for the Harvard crew. Wareham and junior skipper Megan Watson helmed the A division boat, while...
...always tough to go out there without recent experience or practice,” said sophomore Danny Mayer, who shot 81 on the day. “So that didn’t bode well for us from the get go.” Compounding the difficulties, the weather was not on the golfer’s side. Winds of 30 miles per hour, gusting up to 40, complicated an already less-than-optimal set of conditions. “The whole course was pretty much drenched,” Mayer said. “There were puddles all over...
...rally to net a total of six unanswered goals, stretching the Harvard lead to 7-2. Nasty conditions combined with Harvard’s no-nonsense defense helped to keep the first period scoreless. “It was a very, very tough day to play due to the weather.” Duboe said. “The rain just didn’t stop the whole game, so it was definitely tough trying to battle through that, and against a team that hits pretty hard.” After 17 scoreless minutes, Duboe found...