Word: desertion
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...Grounded for Life”) serves up a remarkably unimaginative and disjointed clone of last year’s midlife-crisis buddy hit, “Sideways.” Logue opens his debut with a white Chevy, blurred by heat, slowly making its way across the southern California desert towards the camera—emblematic of “Tennis”’s 100-minute crawl across the screen. Inside the Chevy are Donal Logue’s Danny Macklin and co-writer Kirk Fox’s Gary Morgan, the unlikable central players...
...After he graduates, Brooks will go on to further officer training, and by next year, at the age of 22, he will be responsible for his own platoon. In all likelihood, he will be sent to Iraq or Afghanistan in the near future. But before heading off to the desert, Brooksy, say his roommates, will party it up. “He’s a big fan of the Kong,” says Ben M. Niles ’06. “He likes to go up to the third floor and dance...
...that horrifies Watson. People come from around the world to her Toolern Vale property an hour outside Melbourne, and pay to stay the night just to hear her 16 dingoes howl at dusk. During the day the lean, aloof animals, most of them the pale sand color of the desert dingo, lie in the sun in their high-fenced enclosure, snuffling and backing away when a stranger arrives. Having bred them for 20 years, Watson's home is full of photos and paintings of dingoes, but her argument for their protection is based less on sentiment than on her belief...
...respect. "There has to be a happy medium without killing them all off," she says. "Otherwise our grandchildren will be looking at pictures of them in books, just like the thylacine." Australians must decide whether it matters to them that the dingo's howl may soon vanish from the desert dusk...
...there's still a long way to go. Aside from the architecture, for now there is little to amuse visitors in this scorching desert. And while the royal families of Rajasthan adroitly revived their state by carving tourist trails between their exquisite forts and palaces, it remains to be seen if the Nagarathars can do the same. They have the raw material. What's needed now is the mercantile hunger of their forebears...