The Washington Post, October 22nd, 1989
What can you say about a hurricane named Hugo? If you are a storm-tossed reporter, just about anything you like. But it is best to remember that in journalistic lingo it is obligatory that storms be persons. "A hurricane has a mind of its own," a weather forecaster told The Post. Just so. But its mind is small, and unresolved childhood problems are apparently large. This is why people like Hugo go around ravaging, slamming, threatening and unleashing wrath and fury before regretfully coming to their senses, "whimpering out in rainfall over Southern Canada." Hugo may be our most therapized hurr...
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