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...from the sea. Although more Santa Anas are predicted and many of the state's fires continue to rage, this particular furnace has been banked. That is small solace to the groups of people, who, at 1 a.m., are already dodging police blockades to sift through the ashes and weep. A nighttime wanderer seeks out Skyline Drive -- once a noble address -- and finds a row of unconnected stone chimneys, naked and alone as tombstones and lit by the bluish flames of broken gas mains...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wild Like the Wind | 11/8/1993 | See Source »

...talking about it and my mother is. My mother is a New Hampshire farm girl, but you'd think she was someone stepping out of Italian opera because she always expresses her feelings. My father didn't express them much in words, but he was a man who would weep. I was lucky. He was not lucky because he wept a whole...

Author: By Natasha H. Leland, | Title: Making Poetry Work: A Conversation with Donald Hall | 11/4/1993 | See Source »

...same thing is happening to me...today I spent all afternoon rearranging the postcards on my wall because I was thinking about what you said yesterday about a person's `individual aesthetic experience.' I'm messed up enough without being sucked into your egocentric world!" Nick started to weep, and all I could do was hold him and assure him that everything was going to be alright. But was it? Did Nick have a point? At least he's only a junior...when I graduate in May, I can't go on alphabetizing my CDs forever...or can I? Diary...

Author: By Seth Mnookin, | Title: There is something wrong | 10/28/1993 | See Source »

...boys are shooting at each other for the hell of it," says Bonnie Elseman, a single mother in the neighborhood. "I now realize that I owe the blacks in Omaha an apology for ignoring all the shootings because I thought it was just their problem. I could just weep for these kids...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Boy and His Gun | 8/2/1993 | See Source »

...good verdict," said the Rev. Jesse Jackson, though he added that "it makes me weep that we must go through all this drama to get simple justice." Attorney General Janet Reno, addressing a news conference in Washington, said, "Justice has prevailed in Los Angeles." That comment was echoed by blacks and whites, officials and people on the street, in Los Angeles and other cities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cries Of Relief | 4/26/1993 | See Source »

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