Word: weatherization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Fire seriously damaged a three-story home near Central Square yesterday evening, leaving at least nine people homeless and one fire-fighter injured as cold weather hampered efforts to stop the blaze...
...fire department spokesperson said cold weather "always causes problems." Besides the icy puddles, he said condensation inside masks can freeze, obscuring fireifighters vision, he said...
...person who wears a beret, which is a pain in the ass, all the time, or anyone who wears a safety pin in his cheek, which is just plain painful, for any amount of time. On the same track, people who only wear light jackets in freezing weather, supposedly because they believe them-selves to be weatherproof but mostly because they are trying to be cool (both physically and mentally), are also representative of this sort of affectedness...
...sure what you see in San Diego. Beaches, good weather, the zoo, whatever. But Boston is something I'm not sure San Diego is. It's a baseball town. It's a Red Sox town. It's a loyal town...
...with no future tense. Arcadia has ruins, sometimes quite grand ones -- as in Claude Lorrain's classical revisions of the pastoral landscape, here represented by the Landscape with Nymph and Satyr Dancing, 1641 -- but Roman architecture does not include a stern call to Roman virtue and gravity. Arcadia's weather is always equable, and its views intimate and mellow. Above all, its location is not too far out of town; Giorgione, Titian, Rubens and other pastoralists never fail to include the reassuring sight of a martello tower or a farmhouse in the middle distance...