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...external counterpart in the scouring / movement of glaciers.” As he explores the layers of fractals in nature, the poet sees similar shapes and motion in the patterns of human feelings. He notices “The movement of grief / which has something in it of the desert??s bareness / and of its distances...

Author: By Shijung Kim, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: ‘The Apple Trees at Olema’ Displays Poet Hass’s Scientific Eye | 4/6/2010 | See Source »

...conceptualize,” and Jimmy Finley, the young filmmaker who wishes to record Elster’s account of his experience in one, long take. After initial resistance to the idea, Elster invites Jimmy to stay with him in the vast remoteness of a Western desert??“Not a long visit, he’d said.” But the arbitrariness of such adjectives becomes apparent as days turn to weeks and then, presumably, into months. When Elster’s daughter Jessie comes to stay, at the behest of her mother who worries...

Author: By Beryl C.D. Lipton, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 'Point Omega' Explores Complexity and Consciousness | 2/23/2010 | See Source »

...following traditional roast before the awarding of the Pudding Pot, Ferrante and Gale Rosen ribbed Zeta-Jones for her less popular films—particularly The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Daredevils of the Desert??and her job as spokeswoman for T-Mobile...

Author: By Annie M. Lowrey, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Zeta-Jones Recieves Pudding Honors | 2/11/2005 | See Source »

...thrive these days without assimilation to the West, and in particular to America? Probably not. But perhaps to someone like bin Laden, a massive and tragic extermination in a great war might be preferable to a future where Arabs are confined to a small, reserved, corner of the desert??accompanied only by destitution, alcoholism and casinos—and studied by third-graders as “Native Palestinians...

Author: By Charles D. Cheever, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Native Americans and Native Palestinians | 10/15/2001 | See Source »

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