Word: dusting
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...his 1939 novel Ask The Dust, John Fante looked at the folks around him in Los Angeles and saw "faces with the blood drained away, tight faces, worried, lost. Faces like flowers torn from their roots and stuffed into a pretty vase, the colors draining fast...
...signature outlaw author, used to channel the book's hero, shouting "I am Bandini, Arturo Bandini!" Screenwriter Robert Towne fell in love with the book when researching his script for Chinatown, also set in the '30s. Now, a generation later, he has made an elegiac movie of Ask the Dust...
...rest is a fairly stately, sometimes stilted evocation of antique attitudes and older, better movies. The torpid pace and expertly muted cinematography (by Caleb Deschanel) inevitably suggest the fading fragrance of those flowers Fante described. Ask the Dust is the ghost of a cult novel; it can't bring itself to life...
...been in place," Rasor says. "Troops are getting what they don't need but not getting what they do need. One soldier told us that although his unit could not get enough armor, it got a 60-in., $15,000 plasma TV to watch the daily brief, but the dust ruined it--just like it did the nine others they got to replace the first...
...zenith of faith. While in church, I witnessed an eclectic parade of coordinated bodies in procession toward the altar, where the priest marked each person’s forehead with a cross of ashes. By acknowledging every human’s origin and end in ashes and dust, we are moved toward more than a month of fasting and spiritual growth. In the spirit of ecumenism, similar practices are common to different religions and ways of life: Islamic Ramadan, Jewish Yom Kippur, classical Greek Stoicism, Buddhist bodhisattva practices, and the list goes...