Word: salt
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...main street menzies these days, drive past the graceful Western Australian gold-rush town's lone pub and petrol station, and travel 50 km west along a gravel road to Lake Ballard. It's here, on a 70 sq. km lake dried to a shimmering salt plain, that Menzies shire president Kath Finlayson likes to meet and greet her townsfolk. To an outsider, the 49 metal sculptures appear almost extraterrestrial, with their pointy heads and pixie feet. But to a Menziesite, each is uniquely human. "This is one of the tribal elders," says Finlayson, 56, by way of introduction...
...meritorious," he says, "but I like the idea of creating them and installing them in such an out-of-the-way spot." Earlier that day, he and his wife had walked to the far side of the lake to find a statue of a child embedded in pristine white salt. The sight had made his wife wistful. "They're all solitary," she says of the sculptures. "There's no mother and child." Such philosophizing is Gormley's intention. "The work is a sort of instrument," he says. "I suppose you might ask yourself, 'What the hell are these things doing...
...cool to be Mormon." Heder and Dynamite's writer-director, Jared Hess, are members of the Mormon church, as are most of the film's cast and crew. RYAN GOSLING, the brooding heartthrob in the summer weepy The Notebook, grew up Mormon in Canada. But the toast (nonalcoholic) of Salt Lake City this July has to be Jeopardy! mega-champ KEN JENNINGS, who had won a record $920,960 by the end of last week. Jennings plans to donate 10% of his jackpot to the Mormon church. That's one mission accomplished...
Every now and then the old spark I once felt will be rekindled like during the Yankees dramatic and victorious playoff series against the Red Sox last fall—although surely the opportunity to rub salt in the wounded egos of Sox fans had something to do with...
...year 1784 saw the American brig Betsey, with her crew of 10, captured by a Moroccan corsair while sailing with a cargo of salt from Spain to Philadelphia. Soon after, Algerian pirates grabbed the Dauphin and the Maria on the high seas of the Atlantic and took their crews captive. The situation was becoming worse because the British fleet had withdrawn protection of American vessels after the former colony declared its independence, and the U.S. had no navy of its own. Secretary of State John Jay decided to do what the European powers did and pay tribute to the Barbary...