Word: exoduses
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...exodus is evident throughout the U.S. Airline and travel-agency telephones have been buzz busy since early spring. Airports are crowded not only with departing tourists but with the homecomers as well, who often face wearisome waits for Customs clearance. Even cab drivers, taking Europe-bound passengers to the airport, share details of the trips they have already made this year or plan to. Owners of French and Italian restaurants find that many of their patrons have deserted them for restaurants in France and Italy; Los Angeles Restaurateur Paul Bruggemans, eyeing his semi-deserted Le St. Germain, says, "Europe...
...book, part thriller, part history, part romantic epic, is a remarkable feat of technique, and of soul. Gage deftly shifts among hundreds of characters, dozens of locales, and a welter of big-scale narratives-World War II, the Greek civil war, the exodus of Mourgana refugees in every direction-that in lesser hands would overwhelm the story of one woman's family. He manages to be fair to people he has every reason to despise: he evokes the grievances of the guerrillas as fully as their treachery, the gullibility of the villagers as well as their jealousy and spite...
...distribution of this power more democratic. The Speaker of the House and the President of the Senate, however, felt sufficiently threatened by the symbolic gesture to pull out the stops in opposition. Midway through the debate, they engineered a quorum call, and then, according to some observers, engineered an exodus to sufficiently deplete the ranks and prevent further business...
...GOVERNMENT also introduced a host of populist measures, from increased participation in local government to literacy campaigns and widescale public housing construction. The Jamaican private sector found such measures far too radical; an exodus of skilled workers and professionals ensued, and those who stayed formed a permanent opposition to Manley and his policies...
...patrician parents on Boston's Beacon Hill. The house, which has been sold, greets Mags like a bare, ruined choir of lamentation. The great vaulting windows are naked, the marble fireplace mantelpiece is shrouded, and the living room floor is scattered with empty packing cartons. In the direst exodus of their lives, Fanny (Marian Seldes) and Gardner Church (Donald Moffat) are retreating, year-round, to their summer cottage on Cape Cod. There, as Fanny puts it, with caustic self-pity, there will be "nothing but the gulls, the oysters...