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...play fetch (I like to think it’s because she’s too smart, and not because I was too lazy to train her) so this keeps me fascinated for about 45 minutes, after which the dog collapses, panting and exhausted, on the grass. I imagine trying to tell Booker, already displeased with my ignorance of fishing, that I had killed...
...like one kind of kangaroo versus another - but whole groups of things that are as unique as, say, whales are." Two years ago, Nissen and geologist Elizabeth Price discovered a plentiful site on ground that teams had walked over a hundred times previously: a bushfire had cleared away the grass to unveil an ancient graveyard for various extinct species. "At Riversleigh," says Archer's wife, project coprincipal Sue Hand, "there are always these episodes of serendipity...
...Outdoor Life Across the road from the gas station forecourt, an Aboriginal family have made their home beneath a slender tree; friends and relatives come and go. "The grass keeps the wind off," explains father Leslie Robbor (standing, with back to the camera). On weekday mornings, his son Darren and daughters Brenda and Jasmine scrub up in the ablution block and go into the roadhouse, where manager Jones gives them breakfast and correspondence lessons sent from the Aboriginal community at Kalkarinji, 170 km to the south. If the kids are good, they get to cool off afterward in the roadhouse...
DIED. CARLO DI PALMA, 79, cinematographer and maestro of movie lighting; in Rome. Working with director Michelangelo Antonioni, he obliterated the palette of realism by painting the grass yellow in The Red Desert and greener than green in Blow-Up, creating two of the most influential color films. In the mid-'80s, he ushered Woody Allen into a visually rich period with subtle lighting in such films as Radio Days and Hannah and Her Sisters...
...juggle her own legal work with the duties she cared about most: attending PTA meetings, shuttling the kids to soccer games and making their Halloween costumes. One year, when Wade and his friends wanted to dress as parts of a golf course, she figured out how to make real grass grow on cardboard. The idyll collapsed in April 1996, when Wade, 16, died in a freak car accident...