Word: desertions
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...visual medium it seeks to explore.“Beautiful Children” begins with the recounting of a recounting: Bock painstakingly describes the last filmed moments of Newell Ewing, a snotty 12-year-old reared by Las Vegas suburbanites, before he disappears into the oblivion of the Nevada desert. There is clear fixation with recordings: a stripper becomes comfortable with her job by imagining herself in a movie; her perpetually filthy but charismatic boyfriend schemes to break into the pornography industry; a father escapes his bleak marital situation by losing himself in pornographic films. Bock meditates...
...sips tea on a dusty mat beneath the sparse shade of a thorn tree, Ahmed Hatum Shiib Ahmed recalls the day in early 2006 when his tribal village in Darfur was attacked. Men in desert-beaten pickups with mounted guns swept in at noon, strafing the market and shooting villagers. Then just as quickly, the fighters withdrew to the outskirts, cordoning the village and trapping its inhabitants. In the days that followed, they terrorized the villagers. They stole cattle and camels, eating what they needed and sending the rest on long caravans to distant markets for sale...
...easy to see why Harry might prefer his hard army billet to the comforts of a palace bed. Dressed in camouflage, his pale skin burned as ruddy as his hair, the prince for the first time in his life was almost invisible, blending into the bleak desert landscape with its rich palette of colors - any shade, as long as it's dusty red. To the watching enemy - he calls them "Terry Taliban" - he was indistinguishable from the rest of the troops...
Smack in the middle of the Mojave Desert, the Las Vegas area gets around 330 days of sunshine a year. February 22, however, was not one of them...
...need is a lot of sun, a lot of space and a lot of mirrors - and NS1 has all of the above. 182,000 parabolic mirrors are spread over 400 acres of flat desert, creating a glistening sea of glass visible from miles away. Up close they're shaped like shallow satellite dishes, chasing the sun's movement as it passes through the sky. On the cloudy day I visited, the plant was running at less than full capacity, and some of the mirrors were turned downwards to block the force of the wind, which had the glass vibrating. Although...