Word: southwester
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...adornment, plain or fancy. Even the most sophisticated Navajo silver carvings radiate intense, earthy vitality. Small pieces called Rock Kritters -- mostly rings, pins and tie clips -- leap with life: jumping men, running animals, charging warriors. Among the cheapest items available, they are adapted from ancient pictographs found in the Southwest desert...
...neither politicized rockers nor savvy savers. "People drifted West, all the way to Los Angeles, but they found it was too kooky," he says. "What we have now is the backlash, people who want stability." After stability, he adds wryly, comes Ralph Lauren. "Now it's a look. The Southwest is here to stay...
...shower had become an awesome storm, visible over large parts of the U.S. Southwest, brightening the sky like the grand finale of a fireworks display and causing many startled spectators instinctively to shield their face. Interspersed with occasional fireballs, the meteors reached an incredible peak rate of at least 40 per sec. before the bombardment began to wane. Some shooting stars continued to fall until their trails were obscured by the glare of the rising...
...obligations, and everyone heads toward the Mexican border and the winding down of McMurtry's beguiling legend. The author's minor characters are sketched with a fine, loose skill; there's an old Indian tracker named Famous Shoes, and a white man who has spent his life roaming the Southwest with a pack of dogs, killing off the region's bears...
...March ruling that he could be deported. He can appeal in federal court -- but that process could be short-circuited by an extradition request filed in early July by Egypt. Cairo has requested his return to stand trial for inciting a 1989 riot outside a mosque in Faiyum, southwest of the capital. But Abdel Rahman is almost certain to fight extradition on grounds that he is charged with a political crime. If in the < end he is deported rather than extradited, the sheik can argue it should be to Sudan, since his last visa was issued in Khartoum...