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"Written in the big wind" by Bob Shacochis (Harper's Magazine) (5621 words) |
 | While the prevailing winds carried the storm from east to west/northwest, the west-to-east rotation of the earth rubbed against the storm with a soft friction, like a flywheel or a gear set perpendicular to the heaped plate of the weather system, causing it to slowly spin counterclockwise in a spiral twist. |
| As winds and enormous bands of rain clouds spiral inward and wall up into a monstrous chimney-like tower of weather, air pressure plummets to its nadir, shaving the full weight of gravity by 70 pounds per square foot for each inch subtracted from the barometer. |
| The working-class towns of McClellanville and Awendaw, situated directly north of Hugo's eye, endured the worst—sustained winds estimated at 138 mph, peak gusts at 179 mph, a storm surge of 17 feet—and were the slowest to recover. |
| Written on the Wind (1956) (1438 words) |
| Written on the Wind (1956) is generally regarded as the best of director Douglas Sirk's 1950s lush, vibrantly colorful melodramatic masterpieces. |
| A faithless lover's kiss is written on the wind, |
| On this twilight autumn evening in the ugly town of Hadley, Texas (population 24,554), the wind blows the dying leaves from trees. |
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