Word: dusts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Street, not far from the port, a woman hangs out laundry on the edge of a gaping hole in the wall that was once the window of her second-story apartment. Next door a few men pray in a gutted mosque, while turbaned workers, faces streaked with grime and dust, take a coffee break at Mohammed's Cafe. At one of the tables that sprawl halfway across the muddy street, Aly Rashid sits drawing honey-flavored tobacco smoke through the long tube of his pipe...
With Coors in hand, Guerin returns to Monday night football while Joni reinspects her kitchen for traces of dust. "Maybe I'm growing old but I enjoy taking care of this place," she says. "Hey, do you want to see my studio? It even has a skylight...
...four. Bob Ely's pictures, in tempered grays, are slices from a Midwestern wasteland. He has fixed an eerie view of a technological desert: an empty drive-in-movie parking lot with a massive, mottled white screen leaning over it sprouts speakers on poles at gawky angles in the dust, and a jet plane hovers, hawk-like, in one corner...
Otherwise, The Ebony Tower is a book as lovely as its dust jacket?Pisanello's Portrait of a Lady. The retold tale of Eliduc, a 12th century Celtic romance, charmingly repeats the story of a knight torn between his love for a princess and his loyalty to his wife. A story called Poor Koko tells of a sort of casual Marxist burglar who amiably loots the guesthouse where a pedantic writer is staying, then, like a Manson of letters, coolly destroys the writer's notes and manuscript for a book about Thomas Love Peacock, a 19th century writer of burlesque...
...mining coal while standing in ten inches of water. He quit to enroll in an auto mechanics' apprenticeship program but returned to mining in 1951. This time Miller was placed in a mine so dusty that he soon had trouble breathing, but "the companies told you that coal dust didn't hurt you." Ultimately, suffering from black-lung disease, he switched to another mine-one so wet that it brought on his arthritis. In 1970 he finally became too sick to work, but he was too young for a pension...