Though Napa vineyards are not far away, the Gaia (pronounced GUY-ah) is a collection of plain-looking beige buildings surrounded by tract housing and big-box stores.
Size promotes a slash and burn attitude, for instance, to the environment, an outlook reinforced by the fact that so much of the state is physically nondescript: a collection of tedious plains, vast deserts and anonymous scrublands.
STONEHENGE, a collection of stones on Salisbury Plain that work like a giant calendar to mark the longest and shortest days of the year, is Britain's most important prehistoric site.
(The standard deviation is a measure of how widely dispersed a collection of measurements is. In plain English: How wide is the bell curve that plots the price fluctuations?) This plain-Jane historical statistic isn't good enough, says RiskMetrics.
And that made for a fine way for Mr. Browne to show his latest collection of plain gray suits, plaid gray coats and constricting gray dresses with scalloped hems.
In his two previous books, "Beware of God," a collection of wickedly funny if not just plain wicked stories, and "Foreskin's Lament," a memoir that torched the bridges to his strict Orthodox heritage, he's been relentlessly indicting the Hebrew God as a poor role model.
This interview, which has been edited and condensed, is part of The Huffington Post's "In Plain Sight" series, a collection of conversations that aims to shine a light on the lives of professional artists.
This interview is part of The Huffington Post's "In Plain Sight" series, a collection of conversations that aims to shine a light on the lives of professional artists.
* I came across a fun site, Fancy Buffalo -- "a collection of life & style inspiration from the Great Plains".
In plain speak, that memory comprises a collection of RAM chips.
Lake Ballard is home to 51 steel sculptures by famous British artist Antony Gormley; a collection of lonely skeletal figures wandering the barren white salt plains like mirages of the lost.
