Word: caveness
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...main objective is being the best musician I possibly can,” he says. “[But] you can’t feel good about yourself if people don’t dig your music. Music is pointless if it’s in a cave, if there’s no emotional connection anymore...
...Mary Grace?s favorite attraction of the day was ?Tom Sawyer Island.? This was because, in Injun Joe?s Cave, she could scoot ahead and hide and then scare her daddy or mommy when them came around a curve. This she can do at home, for free. I don?t know where this fits into my roller-coaster-dynamics argument - go ask Malcolm Gladwell - but I?m sure it fits somewhere...
...sticking to its guns, saying some compromise on the election issue is still possible. But privately, U.S. officials predict Washington will blink first. With time running out to get a handover started in Baghdad, a State Department source says, "they're going to realize the game's up and cave." --By Massimo Calabresi and Hassan Fatah
...badlands of Sonora after he laid waste Columbus, New Mexico in 1916. (Prosaically, Villa was killed years later not by the U.S. Army but by a man he had cuckolded.) Precisely two years ago, Osama bin Laden slipped away from the mountain ridges of Tora Bora into the cave-riddled, forested valleys of the Hindu Kush, and allied forces have not laid a glove on him since...
...center of the novel is Rizalina, a sweet and resilient servant girl, who comes to Manila to work as a servant for Zamora L?pez de Legazpi, a rich man who claims to have discovered a group of Stone Age cave dwellers in the country's south. (Hagedorn's inspiration for this plot line is the real-life "discovery" of the Tasaday tribe in 1971, later denounced as a hoax.) Rizalina concludes that Zamora has become uncomfortably enamored with her, and she runs away to become a dancer in a seedy go-go bar. There she meets Vincent Moody, an American...