It is indeed special, sometimes almost magical.
"Rob, it is indeed special to watch," writes Oliver Smiddy.
What they did — "Go to Launch," an extended time-lapse video showing the mind-boggling scale of flight preparation — is indeed special.
The activists cite Cochabamba, Bolivia, where three years ago riots (resulting in one fatality) forced the cancellation of a contract for a consortium, in which America's Bechtel Corporation was the highest-profile investor, to supply water.Water is indeed special: people need it to stay alive, to grow crops and to keep clean, and dirty water spreads disease.
Franschhoek, like Hollywood, is indeed special, but for strikingly different reasons: set in an isolated valley enclosed by severe and sudden mountains, it is perhaps the most elegant and sophisticated small town in South Africa, and one of the three main centres to visit on any tour of the winelands of the Western Cape.
The device works because it reminds us that time is against the child, who is indeed special; a doctor has told Richard that he'll be in a wheelchair by the time he's thirty, and we're aware of the passing years and all the action — working on a scallop boat in the Outer Banks, editing a military newspaper, chasing Tom Waits on Esquire's dime — that he's trying to cram in before that happens.
