Word: underworld
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...guarded site, Moore enters a domain pockmarked with gaping craters, a lunar- like legacy of blasts thousands of feet underground. Many of Moore's 5,500 colleagues labor in cavernous horizontal tunnels that are bored into the granite mesas. To the worker, the test site represents not a nuclear underworld but a well-paid job. "You get used to it, feels like home," says Don Maxwell, 44, an underground surveyor. "Nice and warm in the winter, cool in the summer...
...stoners. These movies are essentially “critic proof”—withholding them from reviewers was completely unnecessary. Similarly, the two horror movies that have been denied advance screenings—the second installment in Kate Beckinsale’s vampire franchise “Underworld Evolution” and a remake of the 1979 thriller, “When a Stranger Calls”—hardly relied upon the press for commercial success. Horror films are guaranteed an audience of genre aficionados who can be relied upon to turn out en masse...
Most of Glück’s collections, including “Averno,” have a central theme that runs through a series of long poems. Averno is volcanic crater in Italy that the Romans believed to lead to the underworld...
Underpinning the book is the myth of Greek goddess Persephone, who spends half the year with her husband, Hades, god of the underworld, and the other half with her mother Demeter, the harvest goddess...
...self-loathing tied around Carla's soul. Yearning for the "authentic" Mexican experience, Carla eventually ends up in a flat she shares with her new Mexican boyfriend Oscar, who dreams of becoming a DJ in America, but settles for selling pot and T-shirts to tourists. Eventually his underworld connections lead to a strange, international incident that precipitates Carla's return home...