They have the power to control the flow of foot traffic on our city streets and decide which plazas hum with activity and commerce and which stay barren and desolate.
Did they wonder why they had stayed on desolate military bases where drudgery, not heroism, was the daily bread?
Danny Ray and band director St. Clair Pinckney all stayed at the seedy Hotel Collingwood on the then desolate eastern edge of the Fashion District.
Col. James L. Stone, who as an Army platoon leader on a desolate hilltop facing overwhelming Chinese forces during the Korean War rallied his men, then stayed behind to cover their retreat despite being wounded three times, actions for which he earned the Medal of Honor, died on Friday at his home in Arlington, Tex.
A profile of the director by Karina Longworth in today's Village Voice offers a view of the shoot that is more surprising, interesting, and audacious than anything in the film: Cast and crew all stayed at the Horseshoe Motel in Burns, Oregon, a two-hour drive on dusty, unpaved roads from the film's desolate locations….
Ten days ago I stayed in Umtata, the former capital of the Transkei: it is like a sacked city, with empty tower-blocks and slum streets the surrounding countryside is tragically desolate, with horrendous unemployment and crime.
He had to parachute into some desolate spot & stay there for a week, grubbing for whatever food & shelter the region offered.
Yet those who make it fare much better than those who stay in Ethiopia and Sudan, who can get stuck in desolate camps.
It's a performance that alternately smolders and flares, as Mortensen and Kodi Smit-McPhee (as the boy) trudge through a gray, desolate landscape, trying to maintain their humanity and stay alive, while dodging others who have succumbed to the Darwinian imperative.
But you can't really stay to argue because you have to catch the bus to that desolate out-of-town shopping complex, where you have to clean out all the puppy shit at a Pets-R-Us.
The harsh tang of life would stay with them from now on, in the screaming tunnels of Marassi, in the desolate barracks of the North, all the way until they came back.
