Word: storms
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...police have been investigating allegations that Abuhatzeira, in 1978 and 1979, received 52,500 Israeli shekels (then worth about $15,000) in kickbacks from three Tel Aviv religious institutions. The bribes were allegedly for directing ministerial funds to yeshivot (religious schools) that did not in fact exist. As the storm broke over his head, Abuhatzeira appeared on Israeli television and cockily denounced the stories as "provocation and a libel...
...worst of the brushfires was "Panorama," and it certainly lived up to its' name. In its panoramic sweep the fire burned out 23,000 acres in San Bernardino County, the area hardest hit by the flames. Started by arson, the fire storm burned down the hillsides into the San Bernardino suburbs, then back up through Waterman Canyon. In affluent North Park, a roaring wall of flame incinerated whole blocks of expensive houses, leaving nothing but ashen rectangles and soot-covered swimming pools. Four died: an elderly couple who perished as they tried to save a pet, and two other...
...pace of discovery accelerated dramatically. As early as last August, Voyager 1's cameras picked up a red spot in Saturn's southern hemisphere. Another one soon showed in the northern hemisphere. Though these features remind scientists of Jupiter's Great Red Spot, a great whirling storm that has lasted for at least three centuries, Saturn's spots are smaller, perhaps only 12,000 km (7,500 miles) in diameter. Saturn's atmosphere seems at least as violent as Jupiter's. NASA scientists estimate winds at upwards of 1,300 km (800 miles...
...successfully captures the characters' isolation, but at the expense of any ensemble feeling: just because the characters don't connect doesn't mean the actors can't play off each other. Thus, the third act upheaval doesn't build to anything, the actors standing around listlessly between histrionics. The storm, of course, is brought in by the arrival of Serebriakov and Elena, and foreshadows the emotional storm in the third act; but when the rain is abruptly turned off after the two depart it cheapens a very subtle metaphor. And I confess I don't really understand the point...
Advertising executives say that animals often project images that mere humans cannot duplicate: the toughness of Dodge's fighting rams, the reassuring watchfulness of the Hartford Insurance Group's stag or the power of the Schlitz malt liquor bull. Schlitz has spent $30,000 for bulls that storm through the walls of bars to prove their machismo. The theme of the new Mercury campaign is the automaker's battle with foreign competition. In each commercial, the lynx, lured by an unseen pan of beefsteak, leaps atop a huge globe and symbolizes a sleek survivor that will conquer...