Her story reminded me of Andre Dubus III's novel "House of Sand and Fog," in which a former Iranian colonel puts on a suit every morning and then changes clothes on the way to his job as a trash collector on a California highway.
In the dark and fog in California, a rocket was preparing to launch.
The actress Shohreh Aghdashloo, nominated for her supporting role in "House of Sound and Fog," said in a television interview last week that she would wear Valentino, but she chose a curvey red gown from an Iranian designer instead.
Odds: 20-1 · Ben Kingsley House of Sand and Fog Prospects: In a real-estate showdown that proves tragic, Sir Ben carves an indelible impression of military righteousness and intransigence.
In a club-appropriate flurry of strobe lights and fog, a towering actor in a black robe playing a Grim Reaper-like role burst on stage, growling, "Looook at this mess.
The Bears and Eagles were famously enveloped by fog in a divisional playoff game during the 1988 NFL season - Chicago were able to make the best of the conditions on the day, winning the Fog Bowl 20-12.
There was a white ribbon sweeping across the upper regions above timberline, a brown swatch closer to the valley floor, and an earthy mix between, where rain and snow and fog mingled daily in a climatic tug of war.
The little Christmas tree looked terribly forlorn, clinging there in the mist and fog to a highway abutment down by the Hudson.
It was late in December, and fog was an issue.
I wandered over to it on a late winter morning in opalescent darkness and fog, passing trees covered in a ghostly dusting of hoarfrost and two moose -- a mama and her calf -- loitering in front of City Hall.
