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Still, there's something parched in these paintings, where the air is crisp and even the bodies of water have a solidity of form and contour that recalls and betrays the influence of Poussin.
Altman had me hooked from the credits, in which the camera cruises high above an eerie topography--both parched and veined with swamps--while the composer, Mark Isham, serves up off-the-beat thumps and hollow brass gongs, and fragments of cell-phone conversations remain just on the far side of audibility.
But risking holiday sentimentality (with the ready-made excuse that it's just the chestnut stuffing talking), I'd like to mention some things I'm thankful for, like Tim Carvell's two (!) responses involving pushing people or poultry out of airplanes; Jennifer Miller's two (!) bits of self-revelation about her dark and ferocious inner life and apartment; Larry Amaros' determination that the Olsen twins wander parched and frightened, not merely in the Serengeti but during the dry season.
Alone on the parched plains of Somalia or the Sudan, they lack the strength to lift even a kernel of precious grain.
On the doorstep of this wealth, the Thar Desert of noble Rajasthan heralds the vast Deccan plateau of parched, ruddy granite that dominates the peninsula of southern India.