Before their ouster, the Taliban also destroyed Bamian's most famous landmarks, two giant Buddhas that had gazed across the rough plains from their honeycomb sandstone hills for 1,500 years.
But the art is there in his pictures, rough and plain as day.
The ornaments here were not simply occasional trills and appoggiaturas, or the taking of obvious opportunities like the sustained notes on the phrase "rough places plain".
And the interventionist bent is sealed in the opening recitative and aria, "Comfort ye...Ev'ry valley," with the tenor Ross Hauck adding elaborate ornaments to paint "the crooked straight" and "the rough places plain" to a faretheewell.
The Pistons, roughed up by O'Neal but just plain rough on the rest of the Lakers, upset Los Angeles, 87-75, athehe Staples Center.
While Ms. July's palette is rougher and plainer than Mr. Malick's, both seek out routes from the everyday to the sublime, and challenge audiences to follow them.
Israeli politicians say that Mr. Sharon appeals to the voters in part because he presents himself as a nonpolitician, a rough-hewn, plain-spoken military man who disdains chasing television cameras to the scenes of attacks.
"October Country" spans a single year, from one Halloween to the next, and it finds a rough lyricism in plain speaking, ordinary faces, daily routines and seasonal rituals.
If the after-work crowd at the Golden Dawn tavern is any guide, Mrs. Clinton still enjoys solid support from the men whose rough hands and plain-spoken ways put them in the coveted demographic that analysts say hold the key to winning Ohio next Tuesday.
