"I will never forget the long, hot nights with the thick stars and thick air sitting on the seawall in Havana, listening to reggaeton music and talking about radical theorists and radical love.
But interstellar dust is thick in star-forming regions, hiding the light of hot young stars and reradiating it in the infrared.
The sky was thick with stars.
Soon the sky is thick with stars, and the popping sounds stop.
It's a shoulder, all right: a fat little picnic ham, on the bone, in the skin, cooked to a trembling finish in a thick, sweet, star-anised brown sauce that cloaks the meat as if in velvet.
We shuffle in a heat-induced daze from the spotless, empty white beach to kayaks for slow paddles along the shore, to deckchairs set around a bonfire on the beach at sundown, to a table laid with white tablecloth under a sky thick with stars.
However, he says, if so, this would be an unusual origin given that thick disk stars are also quite rare in the solar neighborhood.
Those middle of the night bathroom breaks, an annoying nighttime ritual at home, are something completely different when you are standing alone on an empty beach in the dark looking up at a sky thick with stars.
Walking out alone into the Sahara desert, and feeling and seeing the infinite remoteness of its vast, empty, silent, golden dunes was like staring up at the night sky when you're someplace isolated and the sky's just so heavy and thick with stars, which seem to proliferate right before your eyes, you feel almost meaningless.
But The Thick of It star Rebecca Front, who will co-star with Hollander in Julian Fellowes's new Anthony Trollope adaptation Doctor Thorne on ITV, said there was a "problem of affordability" for younger people who wanted to work in the arts.
