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It "might have been more honestly called Hilly Buttocks I Have Known ," says James Wolcott in the Wall Street Journal . Those who don't dismiss it as salacious gossip laud its revelations about gay New York writers, especially the poet James Merrill, and its depiction of the ravages of AIDS.
It lasted until 1848, and it is estimated that more than one million people died and as many emigrated to escape the ravages of the catastrophe.
The pipeline's negative environmental impact and the ravages of the Valdez spill are downplayed.
Kept home from school, he becomes an unblinking observer of the world around him--his mother's adultery, the rise of Nazism, Kristallnacht , the invasion of Poland, the ravages of war, and after the war, the "economic miracle."
Not until a 20th-century Western architect, Frank Lloyd Wright, arrived in Tokyo to build the earthquake-resistant Imperial Hotel was it considered possible — let alone desirable — to attempt to defy the ravages of nature.