Maps of Europe after Chernobyl, depicting radiation levels in all adjacent countries, showed fallout miraculously stopping at the French border.
Like its predecessor, it attempts to show the fallout that Afghanistan's violent history has had on a handful of individuals, ending in death at the hands of the Taliban for one character, and the promise of a new life for another.
If the Mole's Town and Braavos sequences revealed some schematic contemplation on the show's fallout, this scene counts on our past familiarity with the backstory behind the followers of R'hllor (they're nigh-immortal witches) and Varys (he's a skeptic who only grudgingly believes in otherworldly things) for its drama.
Not particularly, especially since "Ring of Fire" was clearly made on the cheap and it never shows any fallout that might be occurring on other continents (computer maps showing What's Happening Elsewhere to the rescue!).
Studies had recently shown radioactive fallout infiltrating reindeer meat, a crucial part of Eskimos' diets.
New data showed the fallout from easy credit was continuing in South Korea, underscoring the financial difficulties faced by LG and other domestic credit card companies.
In the hands of most writers such fumbles would instantly derail their story lines, but Ms. Moore is so deft at showing the fallout these discoveries have on her heroine that the reader speeds easily over the narrative bumps.
Mr. Johnson not only succeeds in conjuring the anomalous, hallucinatory aura of the Vietnam War as authoritatively as Stephen Wright or Francis Ford Coppola, but he also shows its fallout on his characters with harrowing emotional precision.
While the Brazilian real fell sharply last year, a strong end-of-the-year rally turned a 31.2percentt decline to 16percentt fall and showed that fallout from Argentina was less dangerous than many investors and economists had feared.
With a novelistic sense of narrative and character, Mr. Finkel — the national enterprise editor of The Washington Post and a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter — shows the fallout that the decision to invade Iraq and the war's "ruinous beginnings" would have on a group of individual soldiers, who, by various twists of fate, found themselves stationed in a hot spot on the edge of Baghdad.
