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...year-old India “Opal” Buloni, played by newcomer AnnaSophia Robb, is a lonely girl who sports overalls and an American Girl smile. Opal is distinguished from the other townsfolk of sleepy Naomi, Florida with her odd name and piercing blue eyes, framed by dark mascara and perfectly plucked eyebrows. This artistic choice on the part of the makeup artist gives the young actress a surreal appearance to stand out in a movie lacking any standout plot or character development...
Jeff Daniels clunks around in a despairingly mediocre role as Opal’s father, a man known solely as the Preacher. He pines for his former wife, who left the family when Opal was three, and works too much to have time for his daughter. As the weary and well-meaning father and parishioner of a convenience store-turned-Baptist church, he dispenses lines such as, “There’s nothing wrong with making church more convenient,” with forced chuckles to his meager congregation...
...still being used, because hurricane names are repeated in a six-year cycle. A name is retired only when the namesake storm causes extensive damage and the country affected makes such a request. In 2001, for example, Michelle replaced Marilyn, which demolished the U.S. Virgin Islands in 1995. Opal became Olga after its blow to the Florida Panhandle that same year. This year Andrew, which devastated Florida in 1992, was replaced by Alex. "We've probably heard the last of Jeanne," Clark notes. Van Wyck won't be sorry to see it go. Says she: "The folks at church...
...getting to my camel camp of choice run by Explore the Outback (www.austcamel.com.au/explore.htm) turned out to be a trek in itself. I hitched a ride on the twice-weekly mail truck from the South Australian opal-mining town of Coober Pedy to Warriner, a long-abandoned railway depot in the middle of nowhere. "You'll be all right with Phil," the cheerful driver assured me. "He's a bit of a bushie." It wasn't a reference to his foot-long beard. Wearing a check shirt and a tall, rabbit-felt hat, trek leader Phil Gee looked the part...
...Reichert searched the bank for the killer's route to the water, he seemed to make out a faint trail. He pushed through the undergrowth, looking for any bit of evidence that might have dropped on the ground, and suddenly found himself looking at a third body, that of Opal Mills, 16. She was lying face down, a pair of blue slacks knotted around her neck. Her bra had been pulled up to expose her breasts; there were bruises all along her arms and legs. "I've got another one!" Reichert shouted to the other cops by the river. When...