Word: faraway
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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With the most recent theme, “Unusual Faces from Faraway Places,” a local artist painted portraits of the children, who later explored different representations of faces in the museum’s collections and painted portraits of themselves and their families...
Some couples who welcome kids year after year even become local representatives for their program. Becky and David Massey, 56 and 58, a food-service director and a factory worker in Oregon, Ohio, are typical. Through the Aspect Foundation, they welcomed kids from Germany, Ecuador and Palestine, among other faraway places. As volunteer representatives, the Masseys enlist host families and mediate any problems that arise during the school year...
...head of the Education Department and Condoleezza Rice as Secretary of State. Rice leads the eye-popping list of ladies at the top as the first African-American woman to hold that title. But some of the surprising examples of the glass ceiling cracking can be found in faraway places, miles from Washington...
Wearing Depp’s signature wide-eyed, magically faraway look, Barrie brings a much-needed world of fantasy to this family’s life. He does not bring escape from reality, but merely a nuance of it, a lens through which to view the world in one’s own terms. Neither the film nor James skirt around the harsh and depressing facts of life, but the reality they present is tinted with the innocence of fantasy, a fantasy which—in the form of Peter Pan—both takes cues from and strongly influences...
...record right now standing at 8-0 and Murphy’s squad primed for a Herculean match-up of Ivy League undefeateds this week with the University of Pennsylvania, Vittori—who has only missed one game this season, when the Crimson was at Lafayette in faraway Easton, Pa.—waits with eager anticipation for the weekend...