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Already storm chasers like Davies-Jones have acquired a deeper understanding of the spectacular springtime storms that produce the most violent tornadoes. They have played a crucial role in developing a new type of radar that can peer through the darkest clouds and detect areas of rapid rotation as much as half an hour before a twister touches down. And now--thanks to an unprecedented data-gathering effort known as VORTEX (short for Verification of the Origins of Rotation in Tornadoes Experiment)--these daredevils of meteorology are beginning to provide fresh insight into the long-standing mystery of what...
...least, has been in a state of perpetual upheaval. That is why E.J. Dionne, Washington Post columnist and pundit, has the audacity to predict a Progressive revival in his new book, They Only Look Dead. "They" are progressives, liberals and Democrats, whose defeat in 1994 Dionne sees as the darkest hour before the dawn...
This public approval prompted Hopper to return to painting in the 1920s. According to the exhibition text, Hopper declared, "After I took up etching, my painting seemed to crystallize." And his etchings make perfect sense within the development of his work: by using the whitest paper and darkest ink available, he achieves a high contrast which evokes the stark, lonely quality of his paintings. The subject matter and mood anticipate those of his more renowned work: American streets and window scenes in which the human figures seem merely part of the still and vastly solitary environment...
...terrorism.' As for Malan, Hawthorne says, "The general was asking for no favors. He would have his day in court, he declared, because he was innocent of the charges against him and he would prove it. The action against him, he said, showed that 'democracy was moving into its darkest hour...
...American-born author of Cuban-Spanish ancestry brought a reporter's sensibility to such enduring works as The Truth About Them (1971), a multi-generational novel tracing a Cuban family from Florida immigration to middle-class success, and The Franco Years (1977), an oral history of Spain's darkest days...