Word: crusts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Both actors make it clear that their characters are upper-crust crooks. Though ruthless and determined, they have a foppish quality and a refinement surprising for someone in their line of work. In one nice mise-en-scene bit Henriksen plays a Beethoven sonata in the drawing room of his estate while another homeless man is recruited for the next hunt. Henriksen's crony questions the victim about his finances and relatives. Each answer is intercut with shots of Henricksen and his opulent estate...
Freedom -- of sorts. Freedom from beatings by a drunken father. Freedom from fighting with seven siblings for a crust of bread. Freedom to hope. Cristiano, now 16, fled the abuse and violence of his home at 6. Surely the streets of glamorous, wealthy Rio de Janeiro offered a better life than the wretched slum west of the city where he was born...
Harvard Professor of Mineralogy Charles W. Burnham said Hogue was auditing his class, Earth and Planetary Sciences 50, "Materials of the Earth's Crust," last semester...
...evidence suggests that earthquakes are incremental steps in the movement of the 20 or so lithospheric plates that make up the planet's crust. It takes about 50,000 major jolts to nudge a plate 100 miles. Eldridge Moores, the geologist who guides McPhee, believes California was formed when a 2,000- mile-long arc of land parked against North America 250 million years...
...does he know? Moores is a specialist in ocean crust, which he routinely discovers high and dry in the Sierra Nevada. "The whole vast assemblage of transported deep-ocean rock," writes McPhee, "now rests on California like a ship stuck in sand, listing thirty degrees to the west." Scientist and writer poke through the wreckage. They straddle fault lines and sift through road cuts while impatient drivers speed...