Word: customizers
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...more subtle symphony in ochre and umber is created by the window of Brown's Custom Shop in Kingsport, Tennessee, photographed in 1985. The wall is brown, the rolls of linoleum on display are lime, orange and teak. But Eggleston's aesthetic also has a puritan streak that goes beyond the garish and distressed to encompass blank white walls and dry grasses...
...instance," says Curtis, "one city has six giant pumps, and they're all in one building. If you crashed an airplane into that building or blew it up, it would cause half a million people to lose their water supply almost instantly." Pumps of this size must be custom-built and can take as long as 18 months to replace...
...Kakarak incident remains something of a mystery. American investigators found no bodies among the debris, though locals insist that's because the dead were buried quickly, in accordance with local custom. The Afghans blame the Americans for overreacting to celebratory shooting at the wedding; the Americans maintain that the AC-130 was responding to enemy fire...
...BOATS The corps used 25 vessels throughout the journey. A 26th boat--a custom-designed collapsible iron frame covered with skins--was carried all the way to what is now Montana, where it failed upon hitting the water...
...pledge has the comfort of custom about it, and should certainly be preserved. It's too bad the highly dispensable "under God" language cannot be quietly dropped. Fat chance, of course. Still, the ideal solution, I think, would be to render unto Caesar an affirmation of flag and country but to keep God in our hearts, where he belongs, and out of politics. Christ himself was scathing about pharisaical display. Don't try to nationalize the deity; it's a little cheap. The Almighty likes to work on a case-by-case basis anyway. I'm all for patriotism...