Word: honeymooner
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...meets me at sunset on the Namotu resort patio, decked with torches and stone idols, which lend our sit-down an odd Polynesian-honeymoon quality. "All the great stories are about our battle with loneliness," Hanks once said. "That's what I always end up being drawn toward." But, I suggest to him, it's more than that; it's a specific, homesick subgenre of loneliness. Captain Miller in Saving Private Ryan, Jim Lovell in Apollo 13, Hanks' man-children in Forrest Gump and Big and even Toy Story--all share one universally sympathetic struggle: fate blows them off course...
...Jane, for one, hits the road, bums it up, meets long-lost missionary relatives and inherits a fortune. Next to diamonds, a few thousand pounds a year is a girl's best friend. Soon, however, Jane's chilly cousin Reverend Rivers proposes marriage with the promise of a lifetime honeymoon spent preaching to unenlightened savages of India. While a man of the cloth suggests some stability, marrying your cousin just isn't cool. Nobody's fool, Jane shoots him down and hightails it to Thornfield, where she finds the mansion in ashes. As the neighbors inform her, the misanthropic...
Though they seemed to be a match made in heaven, their wedding was a prelude to two years of hell. Irving's younger son cut the honeymoon short by running away from his mother's home and moving in with them; Irving's father died after a long illness; Irving was repeatedly hospitalized for mysterious blackouts. The couple lost one pregnancy to miscarriage; a second pregnancy ended in stillbirth the same week Phyllis' mother died of esophageal cancer; Phyllis was forced to commit her father to a mental hospital...
...outrageous chatter and acrobatics, including watering the flowers on the wall and climbing on and under furniture. Meanwhile, in the "normal real world," her choir-boy son Ronnie (Paul Monteleoni '01) draws laughs as he attempts to bomb the visiting Pope, Bunny withholds her cooking from Artie until their honeymoon while freely dispensing sex, and Artie himself has his wife and girlfriend side by side as he vacillates between tender words and cruelty towards each. The plot has an element of fantastic unreality which leaves one wondering if Bananas is in fact the only sane character in the show. Within...
...eloping--"The car broke down the first time, and I got cold feet the other"--the debutante succeeded in stealing away to Tijuana to marry a young Navy ensign who had been barred from her house for the previous year. Just 19, she brought her college textbooks on her honeymoon. The San Francisco Examiner ran a headline at the time that read SOCIETY COED ELOPES WITH NAVY OFFICER: ROBERTA WRIGHT DEFIES FAMILY. For his part, her husband Jack McCain was punished for being absent without leave...