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...nice modesty, but hardly the whole story for a famously exacting and industrious camera artist. On the set he was up by dawn, boiling a hasty egg in his coffee ("The egg doesn't know whether it's in water or coffee") and hustling to take advantage of the powdery light of early morning. Says...
Indeed you do not. It is a please-and-thank-you kind of town, with a sheen of sophistication the rest of Texas begrudgingly still aspires to. Elsewhere, Texans have been known to agree to meet at "dark-30" or "half-past dawn." Dallas people meet according to the clock. Elsewhere in Texas, the beautiful are "pretty as a speckled pup under a red wagon," and the plain are "ugly as homemade sin." Dallas prefers straightforward adjectives: gorgeous, beautiful, attractive, interesting looking...
Despite some improvement, the overall performance of El Salvador's army remains "checkered." So testified General Paul Gorman, head of the Panama-based U.S. Southern Command, in an appearance last week before a House subcommittee. Indeed, two days earlier, a dawn guerrilla raid on three villages west of San Salvador left 63 civil-defense guards and three civilians dead. Army reinforcements did not arrive until the afternoon, after the fighting had ended...
...number of intersections along about dawn nearly every day, a knot of Mexicans forms. They are in the country illegally and, to them, getting rich tomorrow means hooking a job for as much as 20 bucks. Locally these pockets are called "slave markets." You want your lawn mowed, some boscage trimmed; you drive by, wave a bill, they hop in. They are industrious, trustworthy, and at night they melt back into an area known to all as East Los Angeles, although it is an area much larger than the 7.4 sq. mi. the city defines as East Los Angeles...
During the broiling, dusty afternoons of Ramadan, the Muslim holy month of dawn-to-dusk fasting, sleep is the preferred activity for most citizens of Kuwait. Lately, that slumber has proved fitful for the oil-rich, stubbornly independent nation and its capital city of glinting office buildings and flashy houses striving for modernity. Increasingly, Kuwait has been drawn into the four-year-old war between neighboring Iraq and nearby Iran...