Here, New York, on the tattered edge of the world's first oil patch, is a mere appendage to Pennsylvania and the oil-bearing late Devonian sandstone underlying the Allegheny foothills on both sides of the state line.
But the film has a resigned bitterness, hard to shake off, that feels right for the experience of tough guys, from whatever period of history, who find themselves at the tattered edge of what they take to be civilization.
The mountain range, which stretches about 70 miles, from Valencia to San Bernardino County, actually forms part of the tattered edge between two vast continental plates, which grind unmercifully against each other, Silver said.
He's dressed differently – no longer wearing a flannel with tattered edges like he comes from a poor family.
He is only 29 -- young by any standard outside of sports -- but Sampras put on a performance with yellowed, tattered edges on a surface that provided him with a stage for his coming of age.
Even back when I became a regular, before the city had so unapologetically traded its tattered edges for the relentless sheen of gentrification, his barbershop was a humble anachronism, somewhere too quietly perfect to last.
At its peak, the protest consists of about 25 people, with roughly the same number of periphery people: cops practicing their best stern expressions, security guards half-leaning against the railings, journalists and photographers faffing awkwardly around the tattered edges of the protest, hoping against hope that someone might put a brick through the Foxton's around the corner.
But it too has limitations, especially near the tattered edges of the pages.
Because I wanted" to "see the rough, tattered edges of the world before they were mugged of mystery".
It was worst of all, the grubby paper taken from his wallet and carefully unfolded, its tattered edges and the blue letters of the address offered to her as a gift might be.
