1.   A quivering bass solo hangs in front of the listener like a mirage on an arid desert highway.

2.   But he is best known for his explosive car wrecks, tumbling automobiles on desolate, desert highways.

3.   His corpse was found in a ravine by the dark desert highway early last Saturday morning, near his motorcycle, bullets in his back, shell casings nearby.

4.   Lance Henriksen is a traveling salesman motoring along a lonely stretch of desert highway in his company car when a policeman flags him down.

5.   A man was charged with attempted murder Wednesday after a knife attack on a British tourist and his American girlfriend on a remote desert highway.

6.   A man was charged with attempted murder Wednesday in connection with a knife attack on a British tourist and his American girlfriend on a remote desert highway.

7.   A Jordanian taxi driver who works the desert highway linking Baghdad with the outside world said the measures began in the past two weeks.

8.   But the usual route out of Baghdad is across the desert highway to neighboring Jordan.

9.   He was arrested after a high-speed chase along a desert highway and a cell phone conversation with an FBI negotiator and his parents.

10.   It features Persson driving recklessly into oncoming traffic down a stretch of desert highway, inattentive to the cars crashing around her.