Word: caravans
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...poor English migrants, is making his first tentative teenage overtures to middle-class Meg (Francesca Savige); her shrewish mother Gwen (Barbara Lowing) in turn is being gently snubbed by the headmaster's aloof wife Coral (Georgina Symes). As the three families go their separate ways over Christmas?to camp, caravan park and Gold Coast resort, respectively?only to meet up on the same stretch of beach after a New Year storm, Gow miraculously captures the full weave of Australian baby-boomer society. Here the cultural reference points are Kim Novak, Chips Rafferty and Dame Pattie Menzies, and Roger Kemp...
...Treasurer has matured; the youthfulness has gone and caution slipped in. Once seen as sympathetic to, rather than working toward, the republican push and the cause of Aboriginal reconciliation, Costello has detached himself from the liberal-progressive caravan on social issues. These days he's either pitching to his party's conservative base or trying to master the populism that explains Howard's hold on the masses. Costello is not soft. The argument that he's had an easy run and needs a stint in opposition to forge his character smells of retribution for Costello's unfortunate smirk. Just...
...considered much of a tourist destination. The rundown neighborhood is packed with cinder-block shacks, and its streets are filled with sewage. Most vacationers in Venezuela would opt for the country's tropical Caribbean beaches. That's why neighbors peered out of their windows inquisitively when a recent caravan of Americans climbed up the steep slopes of the country's largest barrio, which many middle- and upper-class Venezuelans dare not enter. The group, from professors to real estate agents, ages 27 to 62, sat on the rooftop of one Petare home listening to the barrio's social leaders praise...
They spent days calling friends to find out where everyone was. One friend suggested that they crash at his apartment in Houston, so they piled back into the Dodge Caravan. Unfortunately, Houston had minimal housing vacancies when Katrina came along, and most of the cheaper apartments were clustered in large complexes in southwest Houston. So as the aid money started rolling out, tens of thousands of evacuees found themselves in the same corner, like...
...Orlando, Fla., before a match, recalls Jeffrey Bliss, chief marketing officer for World Cup '94. The driver dropped off about 150 free Nike caps--JUST DO IT, BRASIL, they read--which soon became one of the hottest items at the event. In France, Nike's "Tour de Foot" caravan brought free clinics to some 50,000 kids around the country, and the company set up a 70,000-sq.-ft. interactive "Nikepark" in northwest Paris. British Marketer OMD found that after the '02 World Cup in South Korea and Japan, more British consumers thought Nike was the official sponsor than...