Word: graveyard
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...team of laborers is moving bodies from a field to the trucks nearby, when a young man lying among the corpses rolls over. "Get up! Get out of there!" yells the gravedigger. But the man wants to stay. He figures he will end up in the improvised graveyard one way or another...
...author being introduced at a Hollywood screening.) On behalf of the Long Beach public library, he also tutored illiterates, who in turn guided him to some of the area"s more exotic landmarks. On his own, Theroux discovered the La Brea tar pits, the world"s largest mastodon graveyard, which conatins what he calls a "cynical metaphor" for Los Angeles: the skeleton of a woman who died about 9,000 years ago."Her skull was bashed in by a blunt object: this first Angeleno, the wall label tells you, was also LA's first known homicide victim...
...perhaps only appropriate that Solzhenitsyn spent his first days traveling through the very land where millions of victims of Stalin's purges perished in the Soviet Union's system of forced-labor camps. In Khabarovsk he visited a large, privately maintained cemetery. At the entrance to the graveyard, he paid his respects at a small chapel built to commemorate those who had perished in the totalitarianism whirlwind of the '30s. Two young priests were reading the Orthodox "Eternal Memory" service from a prayer book. It was one of many symbolic moments on an odyssey that has become a kind...
...recovering elan, though, the labor movement has managed only a turn away from the graveyard gate, and the obstacles to a larger revival are enormous. Employer resistance is still ferocious, and the climate in Washington is merely lukewarm. If the Dunlop commission does eventually recommend changes in labor law to make union organizing easier, it is expected also to urge that companies be allowed more latitude in forming worker- management production and quality teams. Some union leaders suspect such a move could open the way for a new form of company union...
...people with whom I've come into contact this semester, though, from the guys working the graveyard shift at Store 24, to the student who complained about the lack of backgammon coverage (you know who are), one man has touched me more than any: David Allen Boucher, the dee-jay on 106.7's "Bedtime Magic" radio program...