Word: outback
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...AWARDED. PETER CAREY, 58, the Booker Prize for his book True History of the Kelly Gang, a fictionalized account of Australian legend Ned Kelly, the notorious outback gangster-turned-Robin Hood; in London. Carey became the second author in the prize's 33-year history to win twice, after South African J.M. Coetzee. Carey first won the Booker in 1988 for Oscar and Lucinda. DIED. JAY LIVINGSTON, 86, Oscar-winning composer and lyricist whose collaboration with Ray Evans produced such hits as Silver Bells and Que Sera Sera; in Los Angeles. During their 64-year partnership the duo received seven...
Worse, our TVs continued to operate, revealing just how psychologically entwined Montanans are with distant urban centers. Though the fact might embarrass some rugged individualists, the Western outback is satellite-TV country; normal transmissions can't make it between the mountains. There's a dish on every cabin, every ranch house. And since the service that many other people and I use features network affiliates from New York City but not a single station from the West, the bad news from Manhattan was local news. Electronics trumped geography. To feel separate from the horror was impossible, and there were times...
...first “Survivor,” contestants were so hungry they were forced to eat rats. In “Survivor: Outback,” an exhausted contestant collapsed into a fire, suffering third-degree burns on his hands, and was subsequently disqualified...
...gadgets get you off the couch and on the floor, that's progress. But don't expect a few minutes' exercise to transform your midriff. Alicia Calaway, 33, the personal trainer from Manhattan whose textbook anatomy wowed millions of viewers of Survivor: The Australian Outback, tries to work out 1 1/2 hours a day, five days a week, to maintain her physique. Strangers still ask her to lift her shirt for an ab peep show, she says. "My abs are so popular at this point, I'm thinking about putting out a video to teach people what I know...
...harsh remoteness of the outback, and the pioneers' struggle to survive it, are more than a memory in these regions. "The Territory remains an area of adventure," says Les Pilton, proprietor of the Barrow Creek Hotel, who took in the distraught Lees until police arrived three hours later. "It's one of the last frontiers. Part of that is that there is a danger; it's life on the very edge." Distances are almost unimaginable to outsiders: once a week Pilton makes a 570-km round trip just to go to the bank, or for a haircut. Roads...