Word: outback
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Dooling is only warming up. It seems that Killigan's son Michael, Boone's idealistic friend, has gone missing while on Peace Corps duty in Sierra Leone. The scene shifts to the African outback, and the reader worries for a chapter or two that Dooling intends to serve up the traditional wise and ! mysterious natives of white-man-in-Africa fiction who look on gravely as the palefaces disintegrate...
...another story line.) Her employees include Sarah Owens (Cassidy Rae), an innocent from Iowa City who is required to wear a leather bustier on her first job; Linda Holden (Teresa Hill), a woman desperately hiding her junkie/ porn- star history; Julie Dante (Kylie Travis), an export from the Australian Outback, where her father beat her repeatedly; and Teri Spencer (Stephanie Romanov), prone to alcoholism and burdened by the grief of losing her mother on the day she was born. Here is a group that really could benefit from model psychotherapy...
...provocative, which seems to be his pattern. To read it in this charged climate makes a man want to holler, "Slap leather, boys, and head for that line of trees!" Acknowledges Crichton: "It has been suggested that now is the time for that long-postponed trip to the Australian outback." Instead he is bracing for the criticism that trails his books like gulls after a trawler...
...Earth and Sun and Moon the wages of justice remain the same, but the lyrics are sharper, the music deeper. The band, which has been influenced by the Aboriginal cultures of the Australian outback, has forged a passionate yet never preachy style that expresses its activist instincts in elemental terms. Propelled by jagged guitar riffs and a buoyant rock beat, the 11 songs seethe with apocalyptic images derived from urban nightmares and primordial dreams. Dust storms, hurricanes and infernal conflagrations rake the world in a kind of New Age Armageddon. In the eyes of Midnight Oil, Mother Nature has been...
Thomas Keneally's novel is a romance of the Outback...