Indonesia, whose rains come earlier, has had almost 100,000 confirmed dengue cases and around 1,000 deaths.
If there's a budding romance (or a moment of levity) in her life, she reveals a certain affection for the "rolling home made out of silver" that she compares to "a Van Gogh or an old Picasso" in the quirky "Something To Be Said (About Airstreams)." Even stormy weather can cheer up Lynne, whose "Rains Came" opens the album in a surprisingly chipper fashion.
In the film the military and political leaders are detached from reality, while the soldiers battle an unseen enemy whose missiles rain down randomly.
Among the extant texts are those of Stewart Holbrook, our great historian of the logging era, C E S Wood, an early anarchist, and the lately rediscovered Don Carpenter, a mid-century Portlander turned Bay Area beatnik, whose Hard Rain Falling depicts his youthful stomping grounds as a land of rough orphans, pool halls, and teen mayhem that could have easily landed in an early Gus Van Sant movie.
The Cambodian monsoon, whose heavy rains would hamper operations, was only two months away.
Participation was suppressed in part by Hurricane Matthew, whose heavy rains in the country's Caribbean coastal states flooded many polling places.
The storm whose heavy rains have been battering Sri Lanka evolved into a tropical cyclone over the Bay of Bengal, according to the Joint Typhoon Warning Center.
Fed by rain whose persistence has long been the well-merited butt of music hall humor, luxuriant grass feeds hardy sheep from a breed known as Herdwicks.
The film's other producer, Mark Johnson, whose credits include "Rain Man" and "Donnie Brasco," flew in from Los Angeles expressly for the Half King premiere.
His particular brand of buoyancy found its public expression in more than thirty musicals, among them "On the Town," "Wonderful Town," "Bells Are Ringing," and "Singin' in the Rain," whose popularity helped give postwar America an exhilarating backbeat of promise.
