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...darkness falls, the skyline of Portland, Ore., takes on an eerie cast, as if the city of 390,000 were deserted. Along the downtown streets, the familiar glow of neon signs is missing. Against the horizon, the 30-story Georgia-Pacific Building and 40-story First National Bank Tower loom like abandoned hulks, their silhouettes illuminated only by a meager handful of office lights and the winking red beacons that warn aircraft that the buildings still stand...
...SHACK is small and smells strongly of fish. Its white exterior stands starkly against the horizon. Inside, the room is bare except for a wooden chair and an ancient refrigerator left over from an era when it was still called an "icebox...
Ramadan, Islam's holy month, ended last week with Id al-Fitr (Feast of the Fast-Breaking). As the new moon rose over the horizon, Arab families sat down to traditionally sumptuous meals of lamb, rice, mahshi and sharab (eggplant and yogurt), sticky sweets and fruits. The celebrations, dulled by the uncertainties in the Middle East, were unusually subdued among the 1,000,000 Arabs who live on the Israeli-occupied western bank and the Gaza Strip...
...near its conclusion: Imagination Dead Imagine, From An Abandoned Work, Lessness. Beckett tries to present the shape of absent qualities--for they do have shape, as clearly as does the character for zero. The only specifics he allows into his works are those of negation: the grey landscape, bare horizon, the tone of a silence between phrases, the quality of an incompleteness. Imagination is dead--except for the imagination of how it would be without imagination. The late Beckett works grow more and more indeterminate, and the masks of the characters more featureless. It is Buster Keaton, "The Great Stone...
Ahead of the field headquarters was flat and absolutely barren terrain interrupted at the horizon with moonscape ridges. In the distance, Israeli tank formations rolled across the windless desert, raising long trails of stagnant dust. Helicopters with dangling cargoes fluttered back and forth. High overhead, delta-winged jets streaked toward the west, and to the north, the tree-shaped smoke of shellbursts rose from a ridge...