Word: homesick
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...McLean, 26, seems to evoke them all in his new 8½-minute single American Pie. The song mixes the good sounds from 1960s jukeboxes with the bad news from 1960s headlines (notably Viet Nam) to produce the most surrealistic, impalpable pop lyrics since Bob Dylan's Subterranean Homesick Blues...
...Yankees, and Black Outfielder George Altman (30 homers), late of the Chicago Cubs. Lopez, who was raised in New York City and went to Japan to "give my kids a better environment," said last week: "I just can't wait to get back to Tokyo. I'm homesick...
Most of the other Orions were too busy at the training table set for them by their hosts, the San Francisco Giants, to get homesick. Convinced that the Western diet is the secret to the power of U.S. players, the Orions wolfed down platters of roast beef, steak, corned beef and cabbage, brownies and, after a few lessons on gnawing techniques, corn on the cob. Something worked. After losing their first five games by narrow margins, the Orions exploded for eleven hits to trounce the Oakland Athletics...
Cocky young ARVN troops who had enjoyed easy triumphs on the plains of Cambodia grew fearful in the dark jungles of Laos. "The first week everybody was happy and confident, writing letters and trading souvenirs," reported a Japanese photographer with the lead tankers. "Now they are homesick and worried...
...WHILE I march with a group that looks like my Cambridge friends, with NLF flag and Right On With Weatherwomen banner, and am suddenly terribly homesick. It's been a long summer, my friends are scattered across the country. I'm walking alone down Fifth Ave., carrying a notebook. One of these women (I must admit, I don't really think of people my age as men and women, still) sees my notes, is suspicious. I mention the CRIMSON, but also the Post; she warns me. "This is not a bourgeois women's movement. It's OK to write something...