Word: desertic
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...point brought up by U.S. lawmakers as Congress prepared to pass a $106 billion emergency war-spending bill that will fund, among other things, some 70,000 new uniforms for troops in Afghanistan. Evidently the country's muddy, mountainous terrain clashes with the "universal camouflage pattern" designed for dusty desert cities like Basra and Baghdad...
...Vietnam War, while troops during the first Gulf War donned "chocolate chip" or "cookie dough" duds - nicknames outdone only by the "scrambled egg" scheme favored by Egyptian forces. (The mottled black and off-white flecks found on both are meant to mimic the gravel and stones of a desert landscape...
...space-time continuum. The world laughs at Rick, perhaps because he loves show tunes. But someone believes in him: sexy British scientist Holly Cantrell (Anna Friel), who has found the imprint of his lighter in a rock that's millions of years old. She takes him to the desert area where she found it, and after bumping into the obligatory rude dude, a souvenir salesman named Will (Danny McBride), they all go sliding down a waterfall into the time-jumbled land of the lost. (See the top 10 1950s sci-fi movies...
...wish. The difference is in the care taken with the creatures and their environment. The dinos have plausibility and personality, and there are enough rocks, jutting jaws and monster guts thrown at the screen to make a 3-D version of the movie appealing. Production designer Bo Welch's desert vistas - with, say, an ocean liner stuck in the sand at a 60-degree angle - bring Dalíesque visions to a routine action comedy...
...extreme outposts where only generators keep the black desert night at bay, settlers who don't watch much television inside their spare trailers will be digesting the bad news over the next hours and days. Netanyahu will have them to contend with beginning Monday...