Word: outbacker
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...huge surprise). Nancy Johnson's dad was "a big hunter when I was growing up in Downers Grove, Ill., and he encouraged me when I joined a juniors program at a rifle club three blocks away." She was 15 then. She's 26 now--and a champion. At another outback venue, the velodrome, Australian cyclist Michelle Ferris took silver in the 500-m time trial...
...regain the magic and splendor of the weekly reality-based show, I thought, than to relive my favorite moments all over again with the official companion book, Survivor: The Ultimate Game? Unfortunately, this text has only left me thirsting even more for the next season in the Australian Outback. The book, written by Executive Producer Mark Burnett and long-time adventure writer Martin Dugard, fails miserably to recapture the conflicts, competition and connivances that made the television series irresistible. Hastily written while Burnett was still on the island, it reads more like the overdramatic diary of a junior high school...
...were Greg and Colleen covering for during their scandalous excursions? Why did Sean feel he owed Kelly a meal? Why did Sue feel such a harsh speech was necessary at the last council? These issues remain a mystery. For now, however, I plan to keep pining for the new Outback episodes, never to read another book on a television series again and to continue writing letters to Big Brother producers until they release poisonous pterodactyls into the house. Now that would be reality-based television...
...huge surprise). Nancy Johnson's dad was "a big hunter when I was growing up in Downers Grove, Ill., and he encouraged me when I joined a juniors program at a rifle club three blocks away." She was 15 then. She's 26 now - and a champion. At another outback venue, the velodrome, Australian cyclist Michelle Ferris took silver in the 500-meter time trial...
...Well, uh, no. Australians are among the most urbanized people on earth. They have seen their national animal, the kangaroo, only in a zoo or as roadkill on the Hume Highway. Nearly 90% of us live on the coast, not in the outback, wherever that elusive place may be defined as being. (The "bush" is outside the suburbs, the "outback" beyond the bush, and the "black stump" is the word for a very remote datum point, as in, "He lives way out there beyond the black stump.") Our country towns are in decline. Their inhabitants keep moving to the coast...