Word: thunderstorms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...City's Central Park last July, Singer Diana Ross, 39, made a generous offer: the proceeds from the TV taping of the show would be used to build a children's playground named after the erstwhile Supreme. But when the event's promoters announced that a thunderstorm had washed away the profits, there were rumblings from Mayor Edward Koch's office suggesting that it was not just Ross who had been soaked. The dark cloud hanging over the affair turned out to have a silver lining last week when Ross presented Koch with...
...eastern Lebanon held by pro-Iranian Shi'ite Muslims believed to be responsible for the recent suicide bombings of American, French and Israeli headquarters in Lebanon. Theoretically, the "truce" in Beirut was still holding, but the pressures to resume all-out fighting were rising again like a thunderstorm over the Chouf...
Sustained rains so desperately needed in the corn belt were causing havoc in the deserts of Southern California, Nevada and Arizona. Nine Italian tourists and their pilot were killed when a small plane crashed in a thunderstorm near the Grand Canyon. Four other people were killed in accidents related to the freak August cloudbursts in the Southwest. Among them were two motorists who were caught in flash floods that swept through San Bernardino, 65 miles east of Los Angeles. Four inches of rain fell in four hours in the desert area...
Leonardo da Vinci's Landscapes, Plants and Water Studies (Johnson Reprint Corp.; $4,600; after Dec. 31, $5,500) reproduces 70 sheets of drawings, unbound and printed recto and verso, from the hand and mind of genius. Whether he drew acorns, flowers, an oncoming thunderstorm or doodles, Leonardo worked magic. This project is every bit as magnificent as its price. The drawings come in a large portfolio box, accompanied by a 250-page volume of text and notes; the whole production is partly bound in royal blue Nigerian goatskin. It would be less expensive to jet to Britain...
Braniff's end in Dallas came, fittingly, in a driving thunderstorm that had already delayed some takeoffs. Bill Rafter, a salesman from Fort Wayne, Ind., was on the last Braniff flight from Dallas to Kansas City. Said he: "We had waited four hours because of the weather delays, and then we find out that the airline is shutting down." One Dallas couple, Pete and Mary Ann Moxon, had built up enough promotional points by flying Braniff at odd hours to earn a nearly free trip to London. Now, with baby-sitting grandparents already in town from Delaware to free...