Word: halo
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Interstate 10, bound east to west, is a nonstop train of dreamers. Barreling through the desert, they come in search of the cheap thrill, the easy score, the fast women, the sugar daddies. On their final approach, they can already begin to make out the pale halo of the city's lights--lights that can be seen from outer orbit, against the dark face of a planet couched in the shadow of night. They make their way down to the strip and all around the city. They're greeted by a madman's dreamscape: castles made of sand, built with...
...Vegas. I'm in Connecticut--heading toward Uncasville, home of the Mohegan Tribal Nation, to be exact. The pale halo I see is the reflection of my own headlights in the enveloping fog. It is 12:45 a.m. on Sunday morning. I have been driving since 10:30 p.m. Saturday. I turn off of I-95, onto Route 2A, southeastern Connecticut's very own boulevard of broken dreams, and then onto Mohegan Sun Boulevard, pipeline to the gaming phenomenon known as Mohegan Sun. After three tries driving up and down the strip, I finally find where I should...
...this constituted a "negative attack." Of the two, Bradley was playing for higher stakes: he was the one with the most ground to make up after Iowa, and he was the one who risked looking just like any other desperate politician. Except that he doesn't have the halo of the greatest economy ever shimmering above his head...
...beach at Santa Barbara, Calif. In the summer of 1936, when I was a very young boy, he was visiting Watch Hill, R.I. I saw him standing at the end of the pier gazing into a bright sunset, which made his hair appear to be a brilliant golden halo. Over the years, I have supposed that his thoughts that evening were of the significance of E=mc2. JOHN E. GOMENA Pacific City...