Word: outerness
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...retains only three of its original seven stories, but judging by its three-meter-thick walls and vast floor plan, it was once a noble edifice. Superb stone lions at the top of the entrance steps were symbols of royal power, as was a frieze of elephants around the outer wall. A short hop away is the royal bathing pool, a stepped tank with evil-looking crocodile waterspouts...
...says, is just "an ordinary girl in extraordinary circumstances who acts in a way that is totally unconventional." This is familiar territory for Ramsay. In Ratcatcher, set in a grim 1970s Glasgow housing project during a refuse collectors' strike, a young boy tries to send his pet mouse into outer space, tied to a balloon. Ramsay came late to that kind of weirdness. Raised in a working class district of Glasgow, she was weaned on nothing more unconventional than Douglas Sirk and Bette Davis movies. She stumbled into filmmaking on a whim. The strength of her still photographs...
...fought during the war and to meet my Vietnamese relatives for the first time. My sister came because she had finally accumulated enough frequent flier miles to fly International Business Class. After 15 minutes of smacking mosquitoes, we docked the raft on the river’s muddy outer bank. We could finally begin our trek through the forest to my grandfather’s grave...
...conventioneers wearing huge, teardrop-shaped, bright yellow virtual-reality helmets blast away at enemy soldiers in the immersive war game Beach Head 2002. At Triotech Amusement, Tom Revolinsky, vice president of operations for Cleveland Coin Machine Exchange, a national arcade operator, unfolds himself from Ballistics, a high-speed outer-space racing game with realistic seat-rattling technology. "It was a fun game," he says a little woozily, sweat dotting his forehead. "I imagine the younger folks have a little easier time playing...
...Portraits of Colin Powell and Jackie Robinson flank the entrance in his outer office. Dozens of elephant sculptures rest atop the room's bookcases and cabinets. A Quran and Bible sit on the shelf behind his desk. The Chief is a major in the District of Columbia Air National Guard and holds a PhD in Urban Studies and Criminology from Portland State University. The responsibility he holds - and feels - for protecting the community comes across in the gravity of his conversation...