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...soon discover, along with the two unemployed concubines who are more or less tourguides for the show, that this is no ordinary spot. It's a sandswept, burning wasteland, oozing with mysterious "black goop." Everyone's concerned only to avoid the heat, and our luckless heroines, Alma Lovin (Brian Kenet) and Gwen Myway (David Nacht) can't even sell their experienced bodies. It's "Just deserts...In the land that God forgot/It's too darn...

Author: By Melissa I. Weissberg, | Title: The Heat Is On at the Hasty | 2/19/1986 | See Source »

There, in a cluster of sandswept tents guarded by blue-helmeted troops of the U.N. Emergency Force, Israeli and Egyptian negotiators met once more in an effort to work out the details of the Suez ceasefire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: Sandstorm at Kilometer 101 | 12/3/1973 | See Source »

Around A. D. 330 it suddenly disappeared, reappeared farther south. Lou-Ian, the city bordering it, became a sandswept ruin; the rich surrounding country went back to desert. In 1901 Hedin predicted that the lake would return to its old bed. In 1921 it did. He tells the story of Lop-nor, describes his explorations on and around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Adventuring | 5/20/1940 | See Source »

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