His second album of minimal, songhai-language desert blues, "Sahel Folk" (Thrill Jockey), reaffirms what a wonderful decision that was.
"The growing claustrophobia and manipulation of language with 'Desert Storm' were bearing heavily on my shoulders," she says.
Though spoken language temporarily deserted her, she said often that this period of silence was when she first developed a deep relationship with the written word.
With shadows of clouds racing behind him and thunder cracking all around, Simon Russell Beale howls as if, at the height of his eloquence, human language is deserting him.
The film then thrillingly jackknifes into fresh, bloody B-movie terrain, yet even at its most viscerally grisly points, Zahler's limber, literate way with language never deserts him: listen out especially for the sublime Richard Jenkins's monologue about circus fleas.
The goal seemed to devastate the Dutch - their early confidence on the ball deserting them, their body language that of a defeated team.
Such trends were proven by the winning Me & Earl & the Dying Girl by filmmaker Alfonso Gomever-successfulsuccessful writer/director Rodrigo Garcia's Ewan McGregor-starrer Last Days in the Desert and the Spanish-language short film Making it in America by Joris Debeij.
(Her cleverness with language seems to desert her when she has to come up with titles. The title of the book is grimly, ponderously ironic).
Often in "The Unit," your attention is caught by the look of a scene — the glaring light of the desert, say — or by the language, sometimes terse, sometimes flowery, always blunt.
'Positive' retributivism is typically expressed in the language of penal desert.
Touareg tribes in the interior of the Sahara desert share the same ancient language.
