Word: grail
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...here comes the fall's first big movie, and now we're in World Literature 101. Cart out all those Holy Grail legends stored in the attic of your memory and apply them to a four-handed love story. But the true lesson is more familiar: psychotic people are holy seers, tour guides into the nine circles of the urban soul...
Fire in the Belly is that rare thing: a literate and lyrical self-help book. Like Bly, who uses a Grimm brothers' myth as his framework, Keen takes up the ancient theme that each man is on a spiritual journey, a quest for the grail of manhood. Bly's book is an original song of the road, a literary Walkman piping background music for the journey. Keen attempts to provide a rough road map for the trip, advising the spiritual traveler how to avoid the dead ends of combative machismo and the blind alleys of romantic obsession...
...long quest was ending. The surgeons bent over the grail: a 14-month- old girl named Marissa Ayala...
Done. If all goes well, if rejection does not occur or a major infection set in, the marrow will do the grail's work. It will give life to the older sister, who otherwise would have died of chronic myelogenous leukemia. Doctors rate the chance of success...
...German description of well-being is to live wie Gott in Frankreich -- like God in France. Whatever the yardstick for the good life, at least some of it still seems to be outside Germany. In pursuit of that grail, some 800,000 West Germans have established second homes abroad -- in Tuscany, along the Grande Corniche overlooking the Riviera, in the verdant valleys of South Tirol. They have also become the world's most traveled tourists: last year some 28 million West Germans took holidays abroad...