Word: hewn
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...life, they "beat him and beat him." Perhaps as an afterthought, police say, the pair took Shepard's wallet and his shoes. The back of his head bashed to the brain stem, his face cut, his limbs scorched with burn marks, Shepard hung spread-eagled on a rough-hewn deer fence through a night of near freezing temperatures, unconscious and losing more and more blood. On the evening of the next day, 18 hours after he was abandoned, two bicyclists saw him. At first, they thought they were looking at a scarecrow. On seeing his nephew's near lifeless body...
...isolated, populated predominantly by Tibetans and other non-Chinese ethnic minorities clinging determinedly to their traditions on their red-brown earth--have been relatively late in embracing tourism. Stretches of the area are closed to foreign travelers. Zhongdian, the town which I am currently exploring, still has a rough-hewn, construction-made frontier feel, and Degen was opened up to foreigners less than a year ago. Through the long days of riding rickety minibuses whose doors are kept shut with screwdrivers, my excitement would rise with the knowledge that I probably wouldn't see another foreigner until I arrived...
Chen Yuancai stands at the beginning of the Chinese dream. At 71, Chen has lived all his life in Shuangliu, a small village north of the Yangtze between the two cities of Luzhou and Chongqing in Sichuan province. In his cottage are three roughly hewn wooden coffins. "That's for my elder brother, that's for my wife," he says matter-of-factly. "Mine is on the bottom." The three coffins cost him $625, all told, including the grave sites on the hill across from his house, not far from where his father is buried. It is a sizable...
These Hollywood-style celebrations seem meaningless even to East Coast Jews, so it's no wonder Israelis found them difficult to stomach. More than a celebration, they seem to be a cultural imposition of American ideals--of celebrity and ostentatiousness--upon the rough-hewn world of the sabra (native Israeli). Many American Jews like to play down the differences between themselves and Israelis, but the New York intellectual will never be of the same mind as the organic kibbutznik. Philip Roth, this year's recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, makes exactly this point in Operation Shylock, in which...
...present-day abbey consists of hewn-stone buildings with red tiled roofs, pointed arches and stained-glass windows, well-tended gardens, courtyards and sprawling palm trees. There are modern touches: a fax in the office, solar panels in the garden. The wing in which visitors stay was renovated within the decade...