Word: clouding
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...sort of giggled and looked nervous because you weren't quite sure if you understood what you were saying? And then you had this feeling that what you were doing wasn't right, but that made the joke even funnier. This season's first Harvard Summer Theater production, Cloud 9, is a lot like that first dirty joke...
This summer America's theme parks expect their best season ever. Gas prices are stable in the U.S.; the dollar buys less abroad. The dark cloud radiating from Chernobyl is discouraging some tourists: "We postponed a trip to Scandinavia on account of the nuclear fallout," says Jack Arlitt, 66, who chose to see Opryland instead with his wife Oleis. Many others who might have planned a jaunt to Britain or the Continent are scared tripless by visions of Europe as a nightmare fantasyland filled with terrorists...
...suspicion, secrecy and high emotions obvious in many conversations with individuals close to the Center may cloud their assessments of its finances. The tenor of those conversations--interviews which professors and accomplished scholars angrily sprinkle with profanities--underscores another legacy of the last several years that observers say will tax any administrator who takes over the Center's direction...
...smashed windows and hurled rocks at police last week as 10,000 antinuclear demonstrators marched in Hamburg. But perhaps the most stunning response to the Chernobyl accident came from France, which relies on the atom for 65% of its electric power. After first assuring its citizens that the nuclear cloud had passed them by, the French government admitted last week that radiation readings in some regions had been 400 times as high as normal. While that was alarming enough, red-faced French officials compounded the problem by insisting that their failure to notify the public was not a serious omission...