Word: homesick
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...yogurt (available with very fresh fruit) is a terrific alternative for your bewildered palate. Baskin-Robbins (1230 Mass, Ave.): Why anyone would frequent a chain that has spread to the corners of the globe, given the native alternatives, is beyond some, but the familiarity can be comforting to the homesick. The cheapest cone in the Square, and the smallest scoop, too. Try the mudpies--now available in individual slices for $1.50 each--made of Jamocha Almond Fudge ice cream in a pie crust. Haagen Dazs (67 JFK St.): Considered one of the best of the mass-marketed variety, Convenient...
...fate to shuck off the past: parents, the precepts of her Communist Youth League childhood and, in turn, all of her lovers: "What fell to her lot was not the burden but the unbearable lightness of being." The weight of existence descends on Tomás and Tereza. Homesick and upset by her husband's continued philan-gdering, she returns to Czechoslovakia, and he follows, knowing that the i authorities will forbid him to practice medicine...
Nostalghia as a whole consists of suggestions, images, and symbols, rather than direct action or dialogue. The images cluster around different kinds of longing of nostalgia--Gortchakov is homesick for Russia; dream-like memory-sequences begin to intrude into the story. Eventually, the subconscious, the memories, unarticulated desires, and dreams all but overwhelm reality, dream-sequences are strung together with a reality that, in turn, is becoming progressively more and more dream-like...
...enough to make his homeland seem doubly attractive. "I am homesick," he says. "It's the same thing each year. I save my money, then I spend it all taking my family to Turkey on holiday. I've been back 13 times in 15 years. I dream sometimes of having a business...
Last winter I heard a broadcast of the Super Bowl in a ramshackle place that served as an officers' club; the rowdy cheering drowned out whole chunks of the game. It was a welcome little piece of America-after all, even foreign correspondents get homesick...