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...finds her mother's sleeveless blouse risque, so her parents decide that Feroza needs to be sent away to stem her growing conservativism, a conservatism in tandem with the milieu of the newly imposed military regime in Pakistan. But this flimsy pretense doesn't convince us that Feroza's jaunt in the U.S. is politically motivated. Sidhwa's juxta-positions of late 70s Pakistani politics with Feroza's self-indulgent trip are discovered early on in the book for what they are: forced, gratuitous and very ambitious. This is not to say that Sidhwa's descriptions of the anxieties...
...Willy whales may soon go on tour. Animatronic Willy is set for a promotional jaunt. And real Willy -- Keiko -- will have to find less confining quarters. It is in danger of growing too large for its Mexico City tank. As co-producer Jennie Lew Tugend notes sadly, "It's a 22-ft. whale in a tank that's only 15 ft. deep...
...heavyweight crew team gets an expenses-paid jaunt to a training complex in Gail's Ferry, Conn. every year before the Yale race, while the lightweights stay in Cambridge to train...
...small group of seasoned spelunkers, hardy souls who love squirming through tight spots and tromping through mud, such a venture is as pleasant and relaxing as a Sunday-afternoon jaunt. Nor are the trekkers hindered by the surveying instruments, acidity meter and other tools they lug along the way. Led by geologists Art and Peg Palmer, these scientific adventurers are trying to determine what the evolution of the cavern can tell them about prehistoric climates, the ecological health of the surrounding region -- even the likelihood of finding oil in limestone deposits around the world...
...away August without doing any effective campaigning. Thomases and campaign manager David Wilhelm pushed the idea of the bus tours; Clinton seized on it quickly as a means of building on the convention momentum and furthering his penchant for unconventional campaigning. Plans for the first tour, a six-day jaunt from New York City to St. Louis, Missouri, were being drawn even before the convention...