Word: winterizer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Winter Shelter Program buildings--which include the 23-bed Phillips Brooks House project--will do nothing out of the ordinary when they shut down for the warm season this April...
Karl Spilhaus shops with a mission. His busy hands rake through the winter- coat racks, expertly fingering the fabric as he examines the labels and checks the prices. When Spilhaus senses a swindle, he purchases the suspicious garment and whisks it to a laboratory where it is sectioned, stripped of dyes and studied under microscopes. Spilhaus is searching for counterfeit cashmere, and all too often he finds it. A garment labeled 70% cashmere/30% wool frequently contains no more than 5% cashmere. The rest? Recycled rags, human hair, acrylic, asbestos, rabbit fur and even newspaper...
Stephenson spends most of her time deploying a small army of photographers around the world -- solving their logistical problems, salving their egos and astonishing the editors with her ability to come up with a remarkable picture under appalling circumstances. Her first big test was the Winter Olympics in Calgary, where disruptively high winds played havoc with the schedules, tempers and complexions of TIME's twelve-member photo team. "The photographers were going crazy," she says. "It seemed as if almost every time they showed up for an event it got canceled." Stephenson's current challenge is the U.S. presidential campaign...
...this raw, gusty winter morning, Mary Goodrum is wishing she were someplace else than the cab of an 18-wheeler on an abandoned Texas airfield...
...tragedy: the terrible moral power of woe. Mother Teresa has that gravitas of the redemptive. Whole cultures may be judged weighty or weightless by the calibration of suffering. Russian history sometimes seems an entire universe of gravitas: always there is the heavy Slavic woe, the encroaching dark and metaphysical winter...