Word: outbacker
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Somewhere in the outer reaches of outback Australia, a place where there are few paved roads and, since it's winter, the temperature gets to only 98°F (37°C), Nicole Kidman is trying to fall in love. This is an incredibly risky thing to do. Not because it's difficult: the object of her affection is Hugh Jackman, a broad-shouldered swoony hunk of the old school. And not because a lot of her needs--Chanel, lip gloss, salad--aren't available in nearby Kununurra, and the nearest substantial town is about 350 miles (560 km) away...
...tentative coming of age. But just as powerfully, it addresses the dilemma of inhabiting, spiritually as well as spatially, the vast continent of Australia. The daughter of Shakespeare-obsessed Stella, and named after Hermione's abandoned daughter from The Winter's Tale, Perdita can't reconcile the vast Outback landscape of her childhood with the transported English culture of her schooling-"all this life, all this huge unelaborated life, told her there was more on heaven and earth than was dreamt of by Mister Shakespeare." Neglected by her self-absorbed parents, Perdita befriends the family's Aboriginal servant Mary...
...Pistol Pete is hoping to serve up a comeback. Sampras is set to play in the Outback Champions Series in May--the 14-time Grand Slam winner's first tournament since...
...CCSR also declined to support proposals for more humane animal slaughter methods at Outback Steakhouse and Applebee’s, saying, “the companies purchase their chickens from suppliers and are not directly involved in animal slaughter...
...want to know the difference between plagiarism and creative reuse and legitimate theft, listen to Dylan with his intertexts (which of course he wants you to spot): in “Ain’t Talkin’’ his line “in the last outback at the world’s end” comes from Ovid’s Black Sea Letters, 2.7.66 (Penguin trans., Peter Green) “I’m in the last outback, at the world’s end (ultima me tellus, ulltimus orbis habet...