Word: scatteredness
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AS PLUMES OF STEAM SHOT OUT OF ITS horseshoe-shaped crater last week, Mount St. Helens seemed on the verge of a spectacular eruption. And this time the whole world was watching--hundreds through binoculars at safe vantage points, millions more through hourly reports on cable TV. But no one...
My summer travels culminated in front of a casual security gate staffed by two maroon-clad Qatari soldiers. Past the gate, a 100-yard walk in 120-degree heat took me through the parking lot to the driveway of a small, low-set building with portable housing units scattered about...
There, as in many small towns scattered throughout the South and Midwest, life begins and ends on the gridiron, not just for the youths who don the pads, but the locals they represent as well.
But then whimsical attitudes are par for the course here. In its day, Helga's Folly has hosted celebrities such as William Holden, David Lean, Sir Laurence Olivier and Mohandas Gandhi. More recent guests include fashion designer Zandra Rhodes and Kelly Jones of rock group the Stereophonics, who wrote British...
It's appropriate that a movement which, as curator Hetti Perkins puts it, "morphed from rock walls to gallery walls," should have begun in and around Maningrida, "the place where the Dreaming changed shape." Less than 150 km west, at Oenpelli/Kunbarlanja, in 1912, anthropologist Baldwin Spencer first encouraged Aborigines to...