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...Idaho, an Eagle resident and a convicted drunk driver, is always on hand. The National Guard, the sheriff, the rodeo queens and the school band all show up to march. Politicians in old-fashioned cars and businesses on floats throw candy. Then the real fun starts when the "wet zone" rounds the corner and the Little League, scouting troops and school organizations let loose with the water balloons...
Harvard Square is not landlocked. Subversives may favor cracking open a fire hydrant, but there are plenty of other ways to get wet this summer. The fountain in front of the Science Center is a prime place to cool off. Beaches are within an easy ride by public transportation. And the Charles River, while hazardous to swim in, is perfect for rowing, canoeing or sailing...
...conflagration that raced through northern New Mexico's Carson National Forest in early May particularly startled and unnerved experts. Says Mary Zabinski, fire-information officer with the U.S. Forest Service's southwestern region: "We have kiddingly called the Carson the asbestos forest because it is always so wet and at such a high elevation that it never burns. With the Carson burning, and so early, that told us this was going to be a rough summer...
...Rilke wrote after he saw it at the 1907 Paris Salon, "as though by hammering from within." The figure gazes at you with that uniquely Cezannian conjuncture of wariness and authority, every molecule of its flesh and bone asserting its pictorial structure against the dissolution suggested by the lavish wet brushstrokes that represent the wallpaper pattern behind...
...undergraduates' nude antics caused more upheaval than they had expected. Alumni said that as a result of their actions, older alumni felt both alienated and outraged--and withheld funds from the House after a picture of two nude students, wet from the pool, was published in the 1970 yearbook