Nearly everyone had gone to work dressed like a woolly mammoth, ready for an arctic chill, but it was raining outside.
Peter Gabriel, "Don't Give Up" (1986) John Boehner was newly elected to the Ohio House of Representatives when Peter Gabriel released "So," the mammoth album that produced such hits as "Big Time," "Red Rain," "Sledgehammer," and this ballad, a duet with Kate Bush.
Construction on a mammoth hydroelectric dam in the heart of Brazil's Amazon rain forest began again Tuesday, hours after the country's Supreme Court ordered a resumption of work on the project, which has been opposed by Indian groups and environmentalists.
Meanwhile, Lake Mead now resembles a mammoth desert mud puddle evaporating after a hard summer's rain.
Look for them this winter at ter- rain park hot spots like Park City Mountain Resort in Utah, (435) 649-8111, www.pcski.com; Mammoth Mountain Ski Area in California, (800) 626-6684, www.mammothmountain.com; and Heavenly Mountain Resort in South Lake Tahoe, Nev., (775) 586-7000; www.skiheavenly.com.com
For now, alas, the political trade-offs and mammoth infrastructure development this would require make it seem unimaginable.Farmers on arid, rain-fed land need help of other sorts.
Some Rain Must Fall by Karl Ove Knausgaard (Harvill Secker) In the penultimate volume of his mammoth autobiographical series of novels, Knausgaard loses his father and makes his debut as a writer.
Like Bellow's Henderson the Rain King, with whom he shares certain comic energies and proportions, Cleaver is a mammoth ego in relief, dethroned and in a new landscape.
