Then it is a twisting drive past tumbleweeds and saguaros on the way to the Black Mountains and a final push to Kingman.

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That would have been the question to ask, Times, but in its place all we readers get is the sound of tumbleweeds.

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And the plight of these human tumbleweeds, as one observer had labeled them, had by now worked its way into the national consciousness.

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It feels like one of those uninhabited towns in a cowboy movie, an abandoned movie set with tumbleweeds flying in the hot summer wind.

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So it's still possible that tumbleweeds will arrive in New York.

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Crispy beet "tumbleweeds, " wobbly spheres of carrot puree adrift in a sea of coconut and ginger, clams encased in translucent purses of clam juice that burst with each bite.

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Written by "Tumbleweeds" director Gavin O'Connor and Joe Carnahan ("Narc"), based on a story O'Connor put together with his twin brother Greg and ex-New York cop Robert Hopes, this is one of those movies that wants to emulate the serious side of '70s cinema, to dig into thorny ethical quandaries and alert us to institutional corruption.

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