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...same areas, and only a tenth of the 250 who perished in the 1937 flood -- to say nothing of the record 2,100 drowned on the single day of May 31, 1889, in Johnstown, Pennsylvania. Main reasons: abundant warnings, evacuation plans well worked out in advance, the lack of flash floods and above all the fact that over the years most population centers have been protected by levees and dams built high and strong enough to hold against the pounding of a once-in-a-century flood. Hold they did: with few exceptions, the cities flooded were those protected only...
...though he is that too. His novel The Gold Bug Variations was widely praised as one of the best books of 1991. But whenever one of his narratives loses its forward motion, as happens early in this big, messy, off-and-on brilliant novel, Powers tends to go for flash. He sets off skyrockets, then more skyrockets. Great, arcing bursts of language streak across not just pages but whole chapters. (On pollution: "Maroon-brown patinas of condensing air . . . the noxious residue, the breakdown skeins of hydrocarbon linkages . . .") Then, before the afterimage can fade, the bedazzled firmament detonates again in grander...
...movie from the beginning when a firm introductory narration is broken by Orlando talking directly to the audience. Swinton creates an intimate connection with the audience by addressing the camera directly usually as part of a joke. By the end, all she has to do is make a quick flash with her oversized eyes to cause smirks and halting laughter...
What have minority organizations done wrong? It's worth wondering whether the relative youth of the AAA leaders--both are sophomores--contributed to the clumsiness of the Epps episode. The early flash of interest in identity that Harvard produces in its young often fades after a year or two, and this erosion of involvement may reduce the ability of minority organizations to sell issues in the community at large...
...Flash forward to the year 2000. Seinfeld, the NBC sitcom starring Jerry Seinfeld as one of a quartet of angst-ridden New Yorkers, is finally going off the air after 10 acclaimed seasons. For the gala final episode, Julia Louis- Dreyfus makes a return appearance as Elaine (the movie career didn't work out) and meets her successor in the cast, Melanie Mayron. In a typically Seinfeldian life-imitates-art riff, George (Jason Alexander), now head of network programming, tells Jerry his sitcom is being canceled. Kramer (Michael Richards), elected to Congress in the eighth season, finds himself involved...