Word: expat
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...book's two murders. Soon after, the woman whom screenwriter Michael Tolkin (The Player) calls "our best expatriate since Henry James" left for Europe, where she was welcomed as an important novelist, not just a thriller writer. From this pleasant remove, she wrote of another ruthlessly imaginative expat, Tom Ripley...
...21st year, and only rarely thereafter. The skeptic might say he hardly even qualified as an expatriate. As a boy he had no patria beyond the rented flat and the hotel room, and thus was unencumbered by the tension of nostalgia for early belonging that affects the real expat...
...either have no job or are in jobs they hate. So why not give it a shot here?" Larissa Donovan, 25, graduated from Northwestern in 1991 and moved to China in search of a career. She is now a trade representative in Beijing and considers herself an "expat forever." She explains, saying, "Here the changes are so great. Home looks the same every time I go there." Jameson Firestone, 27, has established his own law firm in Moscow and can't imagine going back to a less hectic legal career in the U.S.: "Here the work is like being...