Word: roughnesses
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...copy editors to keep it feeling choppy, unpolished, unmediated. "I really thought that if it was going to have any value, it had to be immediate, it had to be raw." It begins in the simplest, most documentary style possible. The first words of the book are actually just rough notes she jotted down in the wake of Dunne's death, printed verbatim...
...having a rough week when I saw Sigur Rós play at the Opera House. But when Abe Riesman comes upon rough times, there’s no better prescription than Sigur...
...saturday, 30 december: We won the Melbourne Test but I felt empty. Shane thanked me for the advice: pitch it into the rough. Warney also said he'd never heard a bloke sledge his own. Gilly had it coming, though. Leg-side stumping or catch off an inside edge, take your pick. Gilly is overrated. People think he's a saint. I'd walk on an LBW if we had 600 on the board as well. A ground microphone had picked up: "You've just dropped the Ashes, wingnut." It was spur of the moment. Ricky agreed it was harsh...
...miss 1975, tel: (961-3) 323 700, on Monot Street in Ashrafiyeh, one of Beirut's hippest quarters, but the life-size mannequin of a combatant climbing the military webbing near the window gives it away. Inside, mortar shells and spent grenades are propped on ledges of the rough, bullet-pocked walls. Scrawled graffiti on the mezzanine level extols loyalty to armed factions, and the ceiling is lined with barbed wire. The music is not the techno pop blasting all night from most DJs' turntables across Beirut, but the nationalist crooning of wartime stars like Fayrouz...
...chief negotiator Richard] Holbrooke to listen." But Hill's real talent may be the trust he can inspire in those who matter. In the Korean talks, he has been given a long leash by U.S. President George W. Bush and Rice. Hill forged an unlikely bond with his rough-edged, chain-smoking Chinese counterpart Wu. Though he doesn't normally smoke, Hill bummed cigarettes from Wu during breaks, and impressed him by producing perfect smoke rings, a skill he'd picked up as a young Peace Corps volunteer in Cameroon. Hill, too, came to admire Wu for his intelligence...