When, early in 2013, I asked Oliver to write about ash trees for our new monograph series, I did not expect him to say yes – as a small publisher you learn to be plucky, push your luck, turn rough-skinned through rejection.
It would be a rough day, but with any luck, in six hours he'd be in a bed.
Like biological evolution a force that mercilessly kills, eats, and starves animals and plants as it selects for fitness and luck against the rough odds of life, cultural evolution has generally used death and destruction as its lathe.
Those who derive satisfaction from watching the overemployed actor Laurent Lucas get roughed up, however, are in luck.
On the surface, Marie Troy, 51, and her daughter Nicole Abbate, 17, seem to have hit a rough patch — the product of bad luck, perhaps, or a bad year.
Over the next few days, Hall continued to look for mobulas, but shots were hampered by rough weather, empty dive sites, and bad luck.
Bonita's other children had been toughened by their bad dad and their rough neighborhood and their over-all hard luck, rendered sturdy by duress, but Isaac had been made too tender.
He would tell us Roberto Alomar wasn't having any luck or Bobby Bonilla was enduring a rough patch; he just wouldn't make a big deal out of it.
With luck dogs would come out too, rough-haired mutts or poodles with fresh-shampooed coats.
