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3. In addition to supposedly mimicking "a parched man finally led to water"-- what on earth does this mean?
Be that as it may, a later Australian visitor to English drizzle might feel nostalgic when thinking of the parched and thirsty but water-obsessed vocabulary developed in the drier areas of our sunburnt land.
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.
The charge is leveled, and like a parched man finally led to water, Mr. Gottlieb keeps drinking and drinking.
Alone on the parched plains of Somalia or the Sudan, they lack the strength to lift even a kernel of precious grain.