Word: homesickness
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...would happen." Now war is constantly on Mahdi's mind, and he himself is sort of wandering, one of the million Iraqi refugees now living in Syria. Unlike many of his refugee compatriots, Mahdi at least has a job. Every evening he performs one of the star roles in Homesick, a play written, directed and performed by Iraqi refugees at a dingy theatre in downtown Damascus for an audience composed almost entirely of other Iraqi refugees...
...When he gets back to Brazil, he hopes to move his young family of three to the countryside, someplace where he can own a boat and go fishing. "I always say this, I hope I can be in Brazil," he says. And then his homesick expression gives way to yet another hearty laugh. "But maybe I go to China...
...domestic culture. Up to the mid-'40s, foreign films were a cottage industry. Art houses, small theaters in large cities, could be counted in the dozens. They showed French and Soviet films to the cinerati. But there were also many theaters for first- and second-generation immigrants homesick for the kinds of movies they left back in the old country. Hence the foreign-language pictures, typically without subtitles, in German, Greek and Italian neighborhoods...
...always been easy. "Fake Plastic Trees," from the bands 1995 record, The Bends, may be one of the most poignant love ballads ever written, but Radiohead has never been a band for the faint of heart. Among the subjects Radiohead has tackled head-on are alien abduction ("Subterranean Homesick Alien"), the dangers of political apathy ("2+2=5') and death ("Pyramid Song"). For a few short years in the early '90s it was possible to love the British quintet without a shred of guilt or defensiveness. On "Creep," the band's searing 1992 hit single, a self-described "weirdo" strips...
...What a pop song could be called... Dylan pioneered the eccentric fashion of hit singles whose title words don't appear in the song: "Subterranean Homesick Blues" ("Look out, kid, it's somethin' you did./ God knows when, but you're doin' it again"), "Positively Fourth Street" ("You've got a lot of nerve to say you are my friend"), "Rainy Day Woman #12 and 35" ("Everybody must get stoned...