Word: outback
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...taught a course on Australian history in the fall, I began by showing slides of Australia's two most recognized icons--Uluru (or Ayer's Rock) and the Sydney Opera House. They make an interesting pair. That extraordinary monolith, Uluru, not only serves as an image of the Outback, but, as an Aboriginal sacred site, of the culture of the first Australians. The Sydney Opera House on the other hand, a symbol of modernism in expansive mood, reminds us that Australia is also a highly urbanized society capable of producing its own monuments...
Travelers who drive far enough into the parched interior of Australia, taking care to lug extra fuel, water and minor spare parts, enter a region of outback so distant and featureless that it lies beyond the reassuring certitude of maps. So says Australian novelist Janette Turner Hospital at the outset of her grim, millennial novel Oyster (Norton; 400 pages; $25.95). Such travelers--an Australian father, say, and an American stepmother, joining forces to track down backpacking adult children who had disappeared months before--would soon become disoriented. Even in their car they would be dazed by heat and a pervading...
Rickard implemented one of the most memorable visualizations of that myth having his class watch excerpts from "Crocodile Dundee" to get a feel for both the mythical outback and hints of modern attitudes toward issues, such as aborigine relations and perceptions...
...victory. His 11-yard run capped a 58-yard march and put Arizona State ahead 17-14. "This is tough to take," Plummer said. "This was my last game as a Sun Devil. I wanted to go out and win it. But they just played great." In the Outback Bowl in Tampa, Gene Stallings capped his Alabama career with a fifth straight bowl win, 17-14 over No. 15 Michigan. Stallings was 70-16-1 in his seven seasons as the Crimson Tide's head coach, winning the national championship in 1992. After the win, Stallings was typically understated...
...little more than a week ago, the grand promenade to Mars turned into a near Earth lob shot, when a booster malfunction sent the spacecraft plummeting back to Earth shortly after its launch. For a time it looked as if the craft was going to hit Australia, endangering the outback not just with debris but also with the 270 grams of plutonium it was carrying as a power source. That disaster was averted when the ship sailed past the continent and plopped ignominiously into the Pacific...