McCarthy's novels are filled with watchers and hunters, from the Indian scouts of Blood Meridian through the wolf-trackers of the Border Trilogy, to the father in The Road, "glassing" the terrain ahead of him with binoculars, knowing that under such circumstances foresight is fate.
Among the innovations showcased include an autonomous drive feature, gesture control, smart glass, new age Terrain Response with laser scanning capability, and a head-up display that extends as far as a transparent bonnet.
For a journalist following the inspectors, it has been a journey through a looking glass, into an astonishing terrain, full of intimidating sights.
What do a $1 pair of glasses, a rough-terrain wheelchair built with bicycle parts and a fish farm in a shipping container have in common?
Blast-resistant underbodies and layers of thick, armored glass offer unparalleled protection, while all-terrain suspension and runflat combat tires ensure Marines can operate in complex and highly restricted rural, mountainous and urban terrains.
But for the Savyon project, Mr. Ben Horin designed a low-lying structure that blended into the gently sloping terrain, with stone walls and glass doors intersected by cantilevered concrete terraces and pergolas.
The setting was Ms. Halprin's dance studio in the rugged terrain around the wood-and-glass home she and her husband, the architect Lawrence Halprin, share in Kentfield, a suburban town in nearby Marin County.
The Birtwistle concerto is less ingratiating than other works on the program, or than the new Glass timpani concerto, which can fit into American Pops terrain.
Here Murray covers some of the same terrain as Amitav Ghosh's epic novel, "The Glass Palace," and provides us with a miniature portrait of relations between the British, the Indians and those, like Harry, who are both or neither.
He has spent his life scrutinizing the ways many-legged animals scamper over bumpy terrain and scoot up a wall or even glass.
