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								Through combinations of freshly shot documentary film, archival volcanology footage and crystalline abstract animation, their installations reveal a back-of-beyond world lying, as they put it, somewhere "between science fiction and science fact". 
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								Through combinations of freshly shot documentary film, archival volcanology footage and crystalline abstract animation, their installations reveal a back-of-beyond world lying, as they put it, somewhere "between science fiction and science fact". 
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								Afghanistan is not some barbaric back-of-beyond, but the heart of a cultural continuum connecting the cosmopolitan centers of Persia and India. 
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								Simply meaning that when confronted with warmed-over road kill at a lodge or back-of-beyond hash house, it was important to be able go back to camp and make something far better own your own. 
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								Afghanistan is not some barbaric back-of-beyond, but the heart of a cultural continuum connecting the cosmopolitan centers of Persia and India. 
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								Maybe in some back-of-beyond rural areas, but in most of the country you had to be 16 to marry or 15/16 to legally work after the Child Labor Laws were enacted. 
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								CHAPTER TWO she had expected someone -- a woman from the village she had just passed through, perhaps -- as faded and neglected as the house to open the door, not this enormous, elegant man with his dark crusader's face, dressed, her quick eye noted, with all the care of a man about to stroll down St James 'to his club, instead of roughing it in this back-of-beyond spot. You Don't Take Names Ajay Nair 2010 
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								Originally pushed as a book for teens, Twilight is about a girl who arrives as a newbie at a high school in a remote, forest-surrounded back-of-beyond sort of town. The Stephanie Meyer phenomenon Joan Druett 2008 
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								The much-publicized drive into the back-of-beyond tribal lands near the Afghan frontier last spring produced zilch. 
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								It wasn't good anywhere in this back-of-beyond little town, but there was one place .... 
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