FONDNESS FOR CLOUDS BECOMES BEST-SELLER.(Living)

From: The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH) | Date: September 25, 2006 | Copyright information

Byline: Joe Heim Washington Post

As metaphors, clouds are almost never good things. There are clouds of suspicion, clouds of anger, clouds on the horizon, cloudy judgments. Clouds loom, darken, threaten, menace. Clouds get in the way of our tan. Oh, we do not like clouds.

And with them, of course, there's the rain: the tears of a cloud that wash out weddings, poison picnics, send us all running for cover. Keep on the sunny side of life, the song tells us, for ...

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