Word: dust
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...they think I want to ask them large questions about politics and so on," he says with a grin. "They are always taken aback when I question them about simple things. I want to know about the new songs, new words, what are the roads like, what is the dust like? Everyday things." Because it's the simple things, the everyday things, that really bring a story to life...
...Once the day was done—after I’d kicked the academic dust from my heels and trotted the rounds of activities—I liked to retreat into the privacy and comfort of my room, Thayer 414. But it was a shock to realize that this home, unlike my last, no longer promised privacy...
...completely by the distance between the famous person and the average viewer. But great pop music erases distance. It takes our dumbest secret thoughts (He doesn't like me! No one has ever loved as deeply as I am loving right now!) and, with three chords and some magic dust, renders them glorious and universal...
...with seemingly effortless kindnesses. Something-a book, a trinket he'd found rummaging in an antique shop-would catch his magpie eye and remind him of someone; days later it would arrive with a letter in his bold flowing hand. He would spend hours covered in clay and oxide dust making ceramic tiles, assembling grand mosaics destined for a friend's winery wall...
...pressing concerns. The army's journey south revealed a landscape of ruin. The tobacco-farm country around Tibnine, a hill town about 10 miles from the Israeli border, is like a slide show of destruction--scorched earth, leveled homes, torched gas stations--shot in a gray scale of cement dust and summer haze. While refugees have flooded back into other areas of Lebanon, only the brave or desperate have returned to these parts, which are still strewed with unexploded bombs, many of them from antipersonnel cluster munitions. "There are thousands of these out there," says a Lebanese military intelligence officer...