Word: offing
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In response to that stubborn sense of mystery, visitors have characteristically tried to fill the emptiness with explanations, speculating about immigrants from outer space or heroic oarsmen from South America; foreigners see Basque influences here; and locals speak of the statues walking inland from the coast. The monoliths, thought to...
Nowadays, the local airstrip serves as an emergency-landing area for the space shuttle. And as the new millennium approaches, vans start to appear, carrying cameras from Chile (more than 2,300 miles away) to transmit the New Year's ceremonies around the world (from an island that did not...
Behind them, though, bare-chested neighbors with flowing red hair are galloping down the main street on chestnut horses. A girl is kissing a customer in her delight at having completed, successfully, a credit-card transaction (her first). And around a tiny graveyard of white and black and red-brown...
You look at the statues in the early light, and they seem to ask how much a "New Year" means a new you. What ever is deepest in us, they seem to suggest, is what doesn't change, or lend itself to explanation; in love or in worship we leave...
These are tough times for gangsta rappers. In early December, Jay-Z (a.k.a. Shawn Carter) was charged with assault. Now Puff Daddy (a.k.a. Sean Combs), the Hamptons-partying, Versace-wearing, MTV-approved icon of ghetto-fabulous hip-hop style, is facing a weapons charge after leaving the scene of a...