Word: weatherly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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MARIANNE FAITHFULL: STRANGE WEATHER (Island). Eleven brokenhearted ballads by a singer who can handle high drama with no time out for self-pity...
...movie star, though, Williams was on Call Waiting for the worse part of this decade. Fresh from Mork & Mindy, he starred in Robert Altman's Popeye. "It was a painful experience," he recalls. "We were on location for six months, the weather was awful, we were running out of money, and the sets were underwater. It was Apocalypse Now in Malta." Subsequent films were a little like Stardom When? The World According to Garp domesticated John Irving's novel and neutered Williams' wild talent. The Survivors set him up as the butt of a gun-crazy satire. Moscow...
...international rescue efforts do little to encourage recipients to learn to feed themselves, the skeptics argue, and a tougher approach just might force Ethiopia to mend its ways. "What will aid do?" asked Britain's Economist last month. "It will strengthen the dominion of Ethiopia's ignorant rulers. The weather is the only calamity not directly caused by Colonel Mengistu . . . and his cronies. Their Russian advisers have taught them to run vast state farms that produce no food. Imitating Stalin's anti-kulak terror, they have shot 'hoarders and saboteurs' prudent enough to store grain . . . Help for the starving...
...weather starts turnin...
...snowflakes that fell ever so gently this afternoon naturally got me to thinking: what has Harvard meant to me? One of the things it means to me is walking around the Square or the Yard this time of year, with the wind nipping at my neck, the weather cold but not too cold, the air filled with anticipation of the holidays and the New Year. People really do seem nicer this time of year, I think. Then I notice that the guy outside the Coop collecting Christmas money ostensibly for the Salvation Army looks remarkably like the wheelchair basketball...