Word: digging
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...forthcoming photography book. "I've got a real lot of beautiful industrial landscapes. And I'm real interested in dental hygiene, so I'm going to have a chapter on that. Maybe something on fictitious archaeology: I'd like to bury some things, then wait a little while and dig them up. I like to photograph plastic people in little scenes. Then I might have a chapter on spark plugs. Kind of amazing things, spark plugs; our lives revolve around them...
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...Heaney does literally dig in many of his poems, stripping away the soil layer by layer and showing us the peat, potatoes, bones, down to the "wet centre" of "Atlantic seepage...
...gray dust accumulating in the folds of their ears and eyes. Then, after dinner, they prowl the hills for new finds. They are bivouacked 55 miles from the nearest shower stall, in Jordan. "I give 'em lots of beer," Horner explains. "And I find good things for them to dig...
...some likely shales, in the company of a beer-drinking, fossil- hunting pal named Bob Makela. They wound up one Sunday morning helping the owner of a rock shop in Bynum identify some of her fossils. Among them was a coffee can full of bones from a recent dig, including a fragment of a thumb- size femur. "You're not going to believe this," Horner remarked to Makela when he picked...