Word: deserter
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...Kasey Chambers' American debut The Captain is grounded in the 24-year-old Australian native's experiences as a desert nomad wandering through the desolate, inhospitable Nullarbor Plain of south-central Australia. First released down under in 1999, The Captain is a collection of intense, complex and stirring songs filled with warm, personal tales of the artist's attempts to understand life's unresolved tensions. Kasey Chambers' ballad-driven album challenges modern country music with a potent mix of acoustic and electric guitars, fiddle passages and hard-driven roots-rock percussion...
...spectators and race team members create a visual spectacle that allows you to hear the noise at the race pit and smell the exhaust fumes from overheated engines. Perry's photos are the most cinematic of the exhibition; he masterfully creates pictures that evoke the grit and heat of desert races. The pictures are terribly grainy, but that only makes the heat more searing and the intensity of the car race more exhausting. He works well with light and presents the hot rods in the desert as machines of lasting endurance and infinite speed. The image of a potbellied...
...incredibly loyal following. Cult members get their fix whenever possible. People eat it for breakfast, lunch, dinner and desert. Some slyly stash mounds of it into plastic bags and Tupperware. When you see it, you just have to eat it. One rarely sees a full bin of it in the servery. It's a precious commodity...
...increasing roadside devastation from one trip to the next, as an ever expanding network of side roads penetrates deep into the rain forest. The tinderbox effect is already noticeable in many parts of the Rondonia territory in western Brazil and is responsible for large tracts of unproductive and abandoned desert land in the southern part of Brazil's Para state, where it is unlikely that primary growth will ever take hold again. It is tragic that we've been warned about the destruction of the Amazon forest for so long, but nothing is being done to stop it. There...
...Some of his stunts were wacky or zany (two words best applied to the '50s) and would be punctuated by the two forms of the Steve Allen laugh. One was low and desert-dry ("Eh eh"), the other high and hysterically musical ("Ee! Ee! Ee!"), as if a coloratura were being goosed. But Allen was no more wacky and zany than Steve Martin (who parodied Allen's song "Impossible" by singing "It's impossible/To stick an airplane up your nose/Yes, it's impossible") was wild and crazy. Few comics did Steve Allen impressions; his demeanor was too straight, too assured...