Word: desertions
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...Unfortunately, for all his trials in the proverbial desert, Father Dario has little in the way of gnostic wisdom to offer the passing hiker, though he does have a funny story about what it's like trying to get through Homeland Security onto a flight to the Middle East when you have the same last name - Escobar - and birthplace - Medellin - as a legendary narco trafficker. "Many people come here because they think I know the future," he says. "I only know one thing: that we all will die." Then he tells me to get married...
...start focusing on it, so fascinated are they by the daily risks and gambles an American in Arabia must take. It's low-tech guts on the ground, high-tech snooping in the sky. As Ferris lays his life on the line for another scam out in the desert, Hoffman gets a remote overhead view through the Predator surveillance system. He might be God watching his creatures, or a lab technician staring down at the rats in his maze...
Maher’s odyssey begins and ends in Megiddo, Israel, where some Christians believe the world will come to an end. The film starts out as rocky as the desert terrain on which Maher stands, clad in a sleek black suit, ready to take on modern religious extremists. Maher then appears driving in his car, engaged in a vain monologue that is unfortunately spliced throughout the film, causing it to lag. Luckily, most things that come out of Maher’s mouth tend to be downright hilarious—you just have to get past the fact that...
...song is by far the most profound, yet at the same time the most gratifying. Pearson sings: “Millions of forces of physics and providence / Teamed up and brought us all here / Waking and sleeping and yielding to gravity / Pointless to measure in years / Out in the desert your thoughts are clear as the stars / You feel Golden.” Quite the opposite of the ambient noise makers, High Places take what could be sleepytime melodies and turn them into something creative and entertaining. Sure, it may be a bit strange, but if you?...
When a contingent of U.S. soldiers opens a radar facility on a mountaintop in the Negev desert next month, Israel will for the first time in its 60-year history have a permanent foreign military base on its soil. And despite the early warning that the American radar would provide if Iran launches a missile attack on Israel, some senior Israeli officials are nonetheless wary about its presence. Complained one top official, "It's a like a pair of golden handcuffs on Israel...