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...relatively tender age of 34, India-born Nair has built a global reputation for her skill at portraying those lives. With unsentimental care, her camera has focused over the past 13 years on homeless children, homesick exiles and struggling immigrants. Her first feature film, Salaam Bombay!, won awards at Cannes in 1988 and an Academy Award nomination. Her second, Mississippi Masala, a piquant love story about an Indian immigrant and a black American in the Deep South, is garnering warm reviews and a growing following. A film about the life of Buddha is in preproduction, and its $30 million budget...
...Morgan's Passing (1980), Tyler's fiction had noticeably broadened and deepened; the cast of characters had grown more diverse, and the lives led by her people had assumed unmistakable moral dimensions. Then came the three novels that won her wide and deserved readership -- Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant (1982), The Accidental Tourist (1985) and the Pulitzer- prizewinning Breathing Lessons (1988) -- in which the seams between the joy and pain, the comedy and tragedy of everyday existence became impossible to distinguish...
...porcupine waddles along the wooded trail ahead, perhaps wondering why humans make such a delighted fuss when he encounters them. The mood has changed since that wet first night; 501 has come together. Eric Johannesen, 14, once desperately homesick and moody, has been asked to lead, and he sets a rugged pace: "This feels like a family relationship now. I'll get home eventually." Estelle Light, 42, a troop leader who happens to be a nurse, has tended sore feet and wounded egos all week. Assistant scoutmaster Don Browning, 51, hobbled by a sprained knee, finds that the scouts around...
...said she turned down offers to stay with friends because "I feel like I might be uncomfortable if I went home with people, and I might be really homesick...
Snack Attack. The Pentagon has dispatched 11 vans to dispense goodies to homesick G.I.s who miss their PXs. The mobile commissaries are loaded with foodstuffs including Spam, Pop Tarts, Armour Processed Meats and Texas hot sauce. They also carry antacid tablets...