Word: terrains
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...book author and illustrator, likes to turn things upside down-literally: his Arc de Defeat is only an arc de triomphe on its back. But his best work is a surreal anachronism that demands a double take, like the group of men on a plain puzzling over terrain and blueprints "Early Work," says the caption, "on the Grand Canyon...
...since, is haunted by the place. She calls the city insolite, an indefinable French word meaning, well, indefinable. Yet she does manage to catch the essential, elusive Marseille: its smells (mostly fish, wine and paint); its sounds (church bells, ships' sirens, the howl of the mistral); its institutions, terrain, architecture and people...
...backwoods to check out reports of clandestine pot farms. "We saw a whole lot more than we ever suspected," he recalls, flipping through color photos of half-acre patches that pock the hillsides. "It's all over the place." To escape detection, many weed farmers raise their plants on terrain owned by the government or the lumber companies. Rural police say they do not have the time or the money to chase after all the tiny plots in remote areas. Residents sympathize with the lawmen's plight and pay little heed to the modern-day bootleggers. Sighs former State Senator...
Just turned 33, Bob Seger already senses autumn in the air and has started to map the terrain. Funny how the night moves...
...Novelist James Carroll shapes it Brady wages his war against the fates over a vast and richly colored terrain, ranging rom the Irish rebellion of the early 1920s to the Kennedy era of the '60s. Brady plunges into the rebellion: he captains a bloody ambush and emerges as hero and cherished aide to the historical patriot Michael Collins, whose negotiating team he accompanies to England. But the resulting treaty triggers civil war at home, and Brady's family, save for infant Micko, is wiped out. Bitterly, Colman and son embark for America...