Farther along the blade the road recedes and the view expands to take in farm buildings, cultivated fields and, near the pointed end of the blade, faraway hills under clouds streaked pink by the setting sun.
They are part of Andy Warhol's Factory, photographed as a group in 1969, but the ease of their nakedness, along with their faraway eyes under tangled caps of hair, suggests a panel of cinquecento martyrs, serenely pondering their imminent arrival in Paradise.
Out in faraway center field, under the Chevrolet Fountain, Coco Crisp played deep.
His wife, Emilia, wrapped the gifts he sent home and put them under a faraway tree.
In "Shooting Stars," James and Bissinger tell the story of James's youth basketball team, a group of underprivileged Akron, Ohio, boys who started playing together in the Amateur Athletic Union's eleven-and-under division, riding in minivans to faraway tournaments, and wound up national high-school champions, playing to packed arenas and wearing sponsor-provided sneakers.
In fact, many Americans would consider it highly American for those living under tyrannical regimes in faraway places to keep and bear arms, even unlawful, secret arms.
We had climbed on top of the berm, with a rising dawn breeze blowing, and because of the flatness of the surrounding landscape we could see for a great distance, to the faraway village of Nizam Shah, hidden under the crown of a date plantation, smoke from morning cook-fires laced over it.
It seemed unwarranted, absurd even, like wandering bored into some public swimming baths and paying the money and changing in the changing rooms and walking out to the edge of the pool to then dive deep into an ocean with high waves and faraway cliffs and dark shapes moving under the surface of the water.
Years earlier, as a foreign correspondent, I had been in a number of faraway cities and villages while they were under attack, and I had grown somewhat used to the feeling.
In the landscape of the national imagination, Mississippi was once the heart of darkness, a faraway jungle where exploitation and evil coexisted under a ground cover of flowers as well as poisonous bramble.
