Word: homesickness
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...bags of dead man’s bones”) and sublimely ridiculous (“Said Tweedley Dee to Tweedly Dum, ‘Your presence is obnoxious to me’” ). Far from being dead, this sounds a lot like “Subterranean Homesick Blues”-era Dylan, not least in the rambunctious and rock-steady band Dylan has assembled around him, including a guitarist who almost outdoes Robbie Robertson’s blistering licks from the good old days of the Hawks. Dylan has produced the album himself under the pseudonym Jack...
When I first came to Harvard, I found myself homesick for something I never thought I would miss: the tacky movie theaters of South Florida. Nothing can compare to my local Muvico. Not only does it boast plush stadium seating, full course dinners at the concession stand, and 24 whopping wide screens, it is also completely designed in an Egyptian theme. You buy tickets from in-between sand colored pillars complete with “cracks,” you walk over a mosaic of blue tiles meant to represent the Nile, not to mention the fact that there...
...course if Atta had already been drawn into the orbit of the radical networks of Bin Laden or the allied Al Jihad, there may have been other reasons for the signs of stress he exhibited on his final visit to Cairo. But his father concurs that Atta was homesick. "He expressed to his mother that he wanted to return home," El Emir recalls of his son's last visit to Cairo. "He was homesick and said that he had had enough of living abroad...
...last album, Homogenic, and collaborating in past projects with American rapper RZA and British musicians Goldie, Tricky and Thom Yorke. The album was written mostly while she was in Denmark (which controlled Iceland until the mid-20th century), shooting the 2000 film Dancer in the Dark and feeling homesick. "My album is sort of chamber music for this century," she says, scratching a mosquito bite on her arm. "After traveling so much, I realize how gorgeous the Internet is, bringing the home together again. So I'm looking back on a living room in the '50s where the whole family...
...been away from her family home - where she still lived with her mother and younger sister and brother - in the London suburb of Sevenoaks, Kent, for more than four days in a row. After arriving in Tokyo, she phoned and e-mailed family almost daily, telling them she was homesick...