The loyalty that Jeffers inspires, however, reflects the particular, potent hold that California has on the American imagination -- both as a gorgeous, increasingly endangered coastline and as a revised vantage on our world, one that looks west across the Pacific rather than east across the Atlantic.
Mr. Marchionne has a unique vantage point on that challenge.
All that makes racial shape-shifters a fantastic opportunity for a writer: they've got Huck Finn's independence, an identity in turmoil, a secret that could destroy their world, a refusal to be defined by others and a vantage on race that very few ever get to have.
"We have a vantage point on these strikes that is unique and that others don't have, and we acknowledge that others have a vantage point that is also unique and we may not have.
What recently made him headline news was either the coincidence or the miracle, depending on your vantage point, that in the first round of the playoffs against the Pittsburgh Steelers, he finished the game with 316 passing yards.
It was from this vantage point that Miller would look on Christmas morning at the tree below surrounded by gifts.
From my curious vantage, that's not good.
We were interested in using a drone to get a vantage point that no rooftop could offer, looking down on the under-renovation South Bank Tower.
He did not build on that as well as he might have done, but, from this vantage point, Mayweather did not dominate either.
Dropping in on the stream actually feels like getting a balcony-level view of the parade, with a few different vantage points that cycle throughout the stream.
