The island, the remains of an ancient, half-eroded volcano, lies 12 miles (20 km) northwest of Tahiti.
You're thirsty as hell and risk a swig from an ancient half-drunk bottle of mineral water.
Yet there's still a concept to be gleaned here, in songs about ancient half-truths and current self-delusions, converging in the artistic subconscious.
What we discovered was a remarkably unspoiled, often hidden world of tranquil valleys, shining rivers, wooded slopes and ancient half-timbered farmhouses -- perhaps the most beautiful pastoral landscape we'd seen in England.
I went there three times and loved the place for its ancient, half-ruined streets, its variety of faces and languages, its relative tolerance and tenacity — Kirkuk is the Chicago of Iraq.
I went there three times and loved the place for its ancient, half-ruined streets, its variety of faces and languages, its relative tolerance and tenacity Kirkuk is the Chicago of Iraq.
Written by Ernest Abuba and directed by Tisa Chang, this 80-minute "Dojoji," presented by the Pan Asian Repertory Theater at the Clurman Theater, is a half-ancient, half-contemporary take on a classic Japanese myth.
My pantry is an odd and not particularly useful assemblage of disparate elements — an ancient can of sardines, half a chocolate bar that I didn't like and a small, sealed box containing wickedly expensive Italian balsamic vinegar that I can't bring myself to open.
Every scene between the lovers is literally cringe-worthy, from their spontaneous translations in rhyming English couplets!—of Omar Khayyám, to their promises of everlasting love, symbolized by an ancient coin cut in half.
I'm trying not to be mawkish here, as there is both good cheer and a bit of despair on the line in Rockford, as there have been since the first picket line took shape in front of an ancient pyramid or a half-dug ditch during the Shang Dynasty.
You turned off a quiet narrow lane onto an indistinct track that crossed a field, and stopped at the edge of an ancient pollarded wood, and there, half hidden by a tangle of hawthorn bushes, was a small white picket gate.
