Word: deserting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When seen from the exit leading off Interstate 17, 73 miles north of Phoenix, it shimmers in the summer heat, a mirage-like vision that somewhat resembles parts of battlestar Galactica crash-landed in the desert. Arcosanti. The name alone suggests hallucination. It is derived from arcology (architecture concerned with ecology) and cosanti (Italian for "thing before"). An engineer showing off the unfinished structure's apses and arches proudly describes it as "the city of the future taking shape in the state of the past...
...something more than life-size inflatable dolls. The five albums previous to Hold Out have the character of a series of tapestries depicting the coming of age of the Orange County rustic, a convincing though perhaps legendary character who--with the sun and stars, the night, the desert sand, heartbeats and the drum's beat--has embroidered into the Southern California landscape around him an evolving vision of the Apocalypse. And in songs like "Jamaica Say You Will," "Our Lady of the Well," and "For a Dancer," Browne populated that world with hold-outs, who stand apart from...
Approached by road through the forbidding, dust-brown wastes of Israel's Negev desert, it does not look much like a prison. The buildings, flanked by two concrete watchtowers, are single-story and look like huts. At first glance, the place might be just another secret government installation. It is in fact a three-month-old, maximum-security prison located 70 km south ,of Beersheba. Until late last month hardly any Israeli or foreigner had heard of Nafha prison, which is designed to hold at full capacity 110 hard-core security offenders. But today Nafha is fast becoming...
...group," I was told, "of fans like no other-track fans-who will sit in the rain for four hours to watch someone throw a hammer. It doesn't matter to them where they are. They could be watching in the wastes of the Gobi Desert as long as someone grunts and there's a hammer in the air so everyone can lean slightly forward out of their seats and watch the thing land with a thump...
...mine. Tonight and every night, I will be your knight in shining armor, coming to your emotional rescue. You could be mine you could be mine, all mine. You could be mine you could be mine, all mine. I will be your knight in shining armor, riding across the desert on a fine Arab charger...