Word: detours
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...Well, I had never left such that I wasn't planning to go back. I was only abroad because I had gone to Switzerland to pay for my son's schooling. Three months later, on a slight detour to Los Angeles, the revolution came, and everyone told me you can't return. But I hadn't taken anything with me, so despite all the pressures, and this talk of the dangers of what would happen to me if I do, I went back...
...what are they selling? Burma is the Land of the Golden Pagodas, where every man is expected to serve in a Buddhist monastery twice in his life, as novice and ordained monk. One of Asia's great temple cities, 800-year-old Pagan (see Detour), lies alongside the great Irrawaddy River in the central west. Upriver is the cultural capital Mandalay, in the east stunning Inle Lake offers towns on stilts and floating island farms, and peerless beaches fringe the Bay of Bengal and countless Andaman Sea islands...
...ramp leading up and through the Carpenter Center is meant to prompt questions of where the sidewalk ends and the building begins; it snakes through the studios in an almost alimentary fashion and down to the street on the other side. The views into the galleries are worth the detour. Best at dusk...
...daughter of one of the people at the dinner party came up to me and asked me how old I was and I said "Well, how old do you think?" And she said 42. I was like, oh my God. And not only that, listen to this. Detour magazine calls up my agent and says, we want to do a big story on James Gray for our young Hollywood under 30 issue. And my agent said, "He's 31." And they said, "Oh. Do you have any other clients who are under 30?" I don't really care about this...
...finds himself traveling with the band and falling in love with the guitarist's pet groupie, Penny Lane (Kate Hudson), all the while remaining bound to the apron strings of his mother (Frances McDormand), a liberal crusader who sees rock 'n' roll as nothing more than a drug-laden detour on her son's path to law school...