Word: clouding
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...lifted off. "The ice was broke up so bad we couldn't get back to the boats," Don Van Dyke recalls. They stay put, afraid that the thickening weather will keep them from being seen. The big red copter whirls down through the sleet, sending up a cloud of snow as it hovers, barely touching the ice, 30 ft. from the fishing shanty. Chuck and Don and three other fishermen scramble aboard...
...home-grown agencies by opening a New York edition of his Paris-based firm, Brooke embodies "the perfect synthesis of everything that will be successful in the '80s: a little bit of sex and a little bit of innocence; a lot of talent and intelligence but a little cloud of scandal around it; a lot of distinction and yet the warmth of youth...
...strained charm. It is easy to snap off and tune out, but it is not so simple to elude real-life blather. Try to get away from it all, and soon a stage-struck airline captain will be monologuing about terrain miles below and half-obscured by the cloud cover. Go to the dentist, and the procedure is all but ordained: thumbs fill the mouth, the drill starts to whine, and a voice begins to express all those unpalatable political opinions...
...bearing gifts," says St. Ronald, "A bagful of Christmas mirth: Toy planes, toy soldiers, toy tanks, toy bombs--Billions of dollars in worth. I'll put on a mammoth Christmas show, With lights and flashes and caroling loud And as the thrilling finale I'm planning a mushroom-shaped cloud...
...unpack his skis before this week's story propelled him on a two-week, 2,500-mile sweep across seven states from the Canadian border to New Mexico. "I had been warned that the region would be unrecognizable to me," he says. "Things like the brown pollution cloud over Denver's sky line, the mind-boggling traffic in Jackson Woodbury with oil Hole, the rising crime rates. But I was just as surprised by the things that had not changed: the eerie desolation of a high-country road in Wyoming, the majesty of the Teton mountains, and especially...