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...tiger stripe" look of the Vietnam War, while troops during the first Gulf War donned "chocolate chip" or "cookie dough" duds - nicknames outdone only by the "scrambled egg" scheme favored by Egyptian forces. (The mottled black and off-white flecks found on both are meant to mimic the gravel and stones of a desert landscape...
Christian Zimmerman, president of the construction company Pike Industries, said his company planned on laying off as many as 100 workers, or a little less than 10% of its staff, last fall. Instead, Pike, which makes gravel and paves roads, has hired 65 workers in the past three months, and has plans to hire another 70. Zimmerman says the new hires can make as much as $90,000, though jobs at his company start at $25,000, and most pay less than $60,000. Pike, which is based in Belmont, New Hampshire, has landed 10 new contracts since the stimulus...
...When she got to her feet, the knees of her pants were frayed and bits of gravel clung to the fabric, but she didn’t brush them clean or in any other way distract her focus from the figure kneeling on the opposite bank. The dark shape across the water grew elongated, also standing. They faced one another with the Feather River in between. In two or three more hours? they would kneel again and drink.”Among prose stylists, Denis Johnson has few living equals. His finest moments bristle with beauty and potential; words blossom...
...rating, Snyder was able to embrace the sex and violence of the novel and maintain its setting: a fictional 1985 in which a fifth-term Nixon celebrates American triumph in Vietnam. Our insight into this alternate reality comes from primary narrator and protagonist Rorschach (Jackie Earle Haley), whose deliciously gravel voice, hangdog look, and uncanny resemblance to his novel counterpart lend the movie its most gripping and startling moments.Snyder’s cast performs smoothly and largely carries the tone of the story—unabashed, raw violence coupled with an underlying black humor. Close behind Haley for outstanding...
...obvious that Borgo Tranquillo is different from the typical Italian country getaway from the moment the artfully rusted gate glides open onto a winding white-gravel driveway. It's the awesome, modern infinity pool that makes an immediate impression: a huge pale oblong of water, framed at one end by lavender bushes and olive trees. The view beyond takes in undulating fields, woods, hilltop churches and the distant peaks of the Appennines. Beside the pool is an ultra-contemporary pavilion with weathered-steel spiral staircase, leather sofas, library, espresso and ice machines, sauna and steam room. (See 10 things...