Word: islands
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...United States, St. Patrick's Day is much more than a religious remembrance of a saint who lived over 1,500 years ago who drove the snakes from Ireland (rumor) and converted much of the island to Christianity (fact). Instead it has become a celebration of all things Irish, of a nation whose emigrants to this country produced, at least in part, over 45 million Irish-Americans living today. We sing of the "old country," talking lovingly about the light mists that caress her rolling green fields, dancing to her vibrant music traditional and modern, and celebrating this wondrous "Isle...
...States, Canada, and Australia often sailed on tightly packed, disease-ridden "coffin ships," aptly named as a large percentage of their passengers never made it to the shores they sought. Even more who survived the grueling Atlantic crossing felt earth again only to be soon buried within it. The island of Grosse Ile, used as a quarantine site for incoming immigrants to Quebec, today holds the graves of thousands. Those who did survive faced widespread and serious discrimination and hatred...
...modern prep-school Lothario (Ryan Phillippe, who looks a little like Leonardo DiCaprio on mean pills) and his half-sister (Sarah Michelle Gellar, deploying her TV vampire-slaying smarts in a lesser cause). But what they do on their summer vacation (misspent in upper-crust Manhattan and Long Island) is the same old story--an elaborate scheme to deflower a couple of virgins (Reese Witherspoon and Selma Blair) whose virtue irritates and challenges them. As in all the other versions of this story, they succeed, but eventually receive a morally satisfying comeuppance...
Edna's "awakening" begins--and ends --at Grand Isle on the Gulf of Mexico, a two-hour drive south of New Orleans. A deadly hurricane in 1893 leveled much of the island, but the smooth beaches and sultry subtropical climate remain unchanged. It is not hard to imagine Edna in her final swim, lured by "the voice of the sea...seductive, never ceasing, whispering, clamoring, murmuring, inviting the soul to wander in abysses of solitude...
...interior of Pizzeria As-Ilhas-- "Pizza of the Islands"-- evokes the island atmosphere of Melo's childhood. The walls are covered with woodcarvings of dancing children, made by Melo's father. He had been a carpenter in Terceira and ran a small souvenir shop. Melo began working for his father when he was nine...