Word: washings
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White. No horizon. In the distance, sky and tundra fade together into a blue-white wash. The Arctic landscape has a great many shades of white: the crystalline white of blown snow. The gray-green white of ice on the sea. The silver white of a fox's fur. The turquoise white in the northern sky an hour before the sun comes up in the south to illuminate another short winter...
...Outback isn't a specifically defined area, but when Australians refer to it they're talking about country wildly different from the real estate that Ogakor and Kucha call home. Those fortunate tribes have the flowing Herbert River to drink from, wash and cool off in. In the true Outback, water is often found only by digging a hole at the bottom of a rocky outcrop. It can get up to 120 degrees during the day and there is precious little shade. There's no ankle-deep water for a bikini-clad Jerri to lounge in and proclaim "Look...
...students--common rooms, lounge areas, and, yes, laundry facilities. Thus, to borrow the words of one administrator, Harvard is essentially "double dipping," charging students for the energy and hot water costs once on their term bills and again each time students go into the laundry rooms to do wash...
...least there's no shortage of future castoffs. Keith, the master chef who can only cook when there's porcini mushrooms involved and who's trying to pass himself off as a do-rag-wearing stud who can carry "big logs and stuff." Alicia, who may be able to wash the Kucha Tribe's clothes on her stomach but can't even make bitchiness entertaining. Nick, who doesn't have a discernible personality, and Tina, who's sweet and earnest but can't keep her grub down or my eyelids...
...gathering of the author's previously uncollected nonfiction, plus five unpublished short stories. Three of them were found by the poet Tess Gallagher, Carver's companion for the last decade of his life and wife for his last few months, in the home they shared at Port Angeles, Wash.; the other two turned up among Carver's papers at Ohio State University. In a foreword, Gallagher notes that she had reservations about making public stories that her late husband had not finished to his satisfaction: "Ray would sometimes take a story through 30 rewrites. These stories had been put aside...