Some of these images are only loosely suggestive of the scenes and themes of "Invisible Man," such as a south-facing view of the famed Alhambra Ballroom, rain pelting down on Harlemites in raincoats and under umbrellas.
At about the age of eleven, he held his first public art exhibition — in the doorway of an umbrella shop in Corunna, a Galician town ill-famed for its rain, where his wretched father, who liked sunshine, had a temporary teaching post.
As a junior team captain in 2002, Grossman led the Gators in the famed "Slingin' in the Rain" game against the Tennessee Volunteers, in which he threw three touchdowns and 22 completions in 32 attempts en route to a 30-13 victoverover the Vols.
The extreme theatricality of his famed runway shows, which featured models walking through rain, snow, fire, and often required them to act rather than just strut down a runway, led him to garner a reputation as a performance artist-cum-fashion designer.
True, last night's cool rain had us wearing jackets on a cloudy beach famed for the prismatic clarity of Greek light.
The stage architecture seemed to be slightly modeled after Burning Man's famed Opulent Temple and attendance aside the set felt like a true heady rain dance.
Despite pounding rains that devastated certain Rio neighborhoods, the city's famed beaches are relatively unharmed and attract plenty of bronzing Cariocas through May.
For a man who claimed that the famed Archaeopteryx fossil in the British Museum of Natural History was a fake and that microbes rained down on earth as part of a possible seeding experiment by extraterrestrials, Hoyle won a great number of the most prestigious awards science offers.
Near Big Sur, the fire known as the Basin Complex had destroyed at least 20 structures by Friday morning, and had circled at least one of the area's famed resorts, where firefighters and others sprayed buildings with retardant as ash rained down and smoke billowed.
Others chalk Seattle's sweet tooth up to the climate: "With the rain and the coffee, it just makes chocolate something we want to eat year round," said famed Seattle chocolatier Fran Bigelow, owner of Fran's Chocolates.
