Word: sanding
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...Cairo. Yet the heart of her book is an inner quest as she tries to piece together the fragments of her life and loves by observing the natural wonders around her. She learns how stars and flowers were defined with the same Coptic words, and exchanges poems with wise, sand-hardened guides. Even when she goes fishing, she comes upon the "green unicorn fish," which uses its buckteeth to eat coral, and the "apricot-yellow" boxfish, which resembles "a lovely joke, a gift for a friend." The northern side of the Ras Benas peninsula of the Red Sea, she writes...
...Arabia," either in the '60s or last Wednesday, it's surely an unforgettable experience. More than any other film from Hollywood's so-called Golden Age (with the possible exception of "Ben-Hur"), David Lean's epic deserves to be seen on the big screen. The sweeping expanses of sand and sky, desert cliffs, even the startlingly blue ribbon of the Mediterranean Sea; the small, pencil-thin figure of a lone rider, shimmering in the distance like a mirage; the long convoys of Bedouin warriors, dwarfed by the sea of sand--all of these, seen in 70-mm and magnificently...
...beach I walk is like most others. The waves churn up the sounds of eternity; the sand speaks of ephemera and decay. I see all the usual symbols and have all the usual reactions. According to Nevil Shute, we were destined to destroy ourselves and wind up On the Beach, and may yet. The possibility seems remote tonight. This is more like Matthew Arnold's "Dover Beach," on which the occurrence of an earth-jolting discovery awakens thoughts of self-examination, self-location, a touch of resolve...
...talking, spirited wheeler-dealer, famous for his cunning. The creators might have had fun with that aspect of his character. Instead, they have conjured up a guy who seems to be on a very long journey to find his missing Prozac, even when he is rolling around in the sand sweating and staring lustfully at the goddess Calypso (Vanessa Williams) as if this were an episode of Baywatch: The B.C. Years...
Harvard added three in the third and then blew it open in the fourth. An error--one of five in the game by the Big Green--sand-wiched between two walks, loaded the bases with one out in the top of the fourth for Vankoski...