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...hide her faults," says Sarmi. "I hate the ambiguity of women's clothes today. What for is the man to marry, if what he gets is not a woman but an ersatz man in pants?" Sarmi creations offer a woman frills but not fuss, flourishes but not flash, take her to the ball secure in the knowledge of her own absolute femininity...
Last week, in a series of municipal elections, the G.O.P. proved that its 1964 performance was not a flash in the pan. Where the party ran only two candidates in the 1961 municipal elections, this time it put up no fewer than 46-seven for mayor, 39 for lesser posts in 18 towns and cities. Sensing a threat to Democratic rule, Governor Paul Johnson urged Mississippians to the polls for "probably the most important election in this state's recent history...
Whatever it was that rocked Central Siberia back in 1908, echoes of the explosion still reverberate in scientific argument. Farmers 40 miles away from the center of the blast were knocked down by the pressure wave and burned by the flash; trees 30 miles from the center were blown over. But no one is yet sure what actually happened...
...Great flashes often struck out of the volcanic plume, usually hitting the newborn island near the active vent, and almost every time, the scientists' instruments showed a strong charge of positive electricity in the plume just before the flash. After the flash, the plume was neutral or negative, building up a positive charge before the next flash. This happened repeatedly without any thundercloud forming in the vicinity, proving that the volcano alone was generating the electricity. Just how it did this is still uncertain. In some cases, the positive electricity was created when a high-speed...
Meaning in the Depths. Author O'Connor was a verbal magician whose phrases flamed like matches in the dark, revealing a face in a flash (a child's features contorted with grief into "a puzzle of small red lumps"), a life in a single insight ("a sniveler after the ineffable"). But the motivation of character and the imitation of life did not finally interest Author O'Connor. "The meaning of a story," she once wrote, "begins at a depth where these things have been exhausted...