Word: thunderings
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Offstage, the distant thunder of great events. In the background, an exotic city, sleepless, decadent and aswarm with corrupt and conniving characters. In the foreground, a displaced American male hides his latent idealism under a shady manner, and a displaced European woman hides her latent sexuality under the guise of loyalty to her husband and the outlawed political cause to which he has made a passionate and dangerous commitment...
Lasers embroidered the curtains with bursts of aquamarine and white to simulate lightning. An electronic hiss and crackle conjured up thunder. Billows of cloth suggested wind and rain, then fell away to reveal the swaying prow of a tempest-tossed Renaissance ship. Its captain shouted orders, wrestled with the wheel, tumbled into a make-believe sea and emerged a moment later as if dragging himself onto shore. He cried in triumph, "Sweet Jesus, I'm alive...
Fortunately for the Crimson, that Army was the host Cadets (1-3-2 overall, 1-2-1 ECAC) from West Point, who saw their lead disappear like a Stealth Bomber. Harvard (3-1, 3-1) enlisted its own Operation Imminent Thunder in the third period, scoring four unanswered goals en route to a 5-2 victory in Tate Rink...
Rudyard Kipling notwithstanding, Mandalay has neither flying fishes nor even a bay; Burma's second city sits on an arid plain. For the clergy of the Phaya- gyi monastery, however, the dawn really did come up like thunder one morning last week as government troops raided the 206-year-old pagoda and arrested about 20 of its monks...
...dominated its Japanese rivals so completely that Tokyo experts quipped, "When IBM sneezes, Japanese computer makers are blown away." No longer. Last week Fujitsu, Japan's largest computer company, unveiled what it called the highest-performance general-purpose computer in the world. The timing of the announcement stole thunder from IBM, which the next day introduced its own new generation of mainframe machines. IBM touted the new computers as its most important roll-out in 25 years...