Word: journey
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Jimmy Carter's sentimental journey through the tobacco lands of North Carolina the other day was a tonic for him. But despite the cheers, the line he followed took him right down the old route of confusion...
...pictorial record of Pound's unsentimental journey through old memories and older landmarks makes for intriguing viewing on several levels. First there are the sites themselves. Although a few of his shots smack of artiness, Photographer Vittorugo Contino is usually content to let Pisa, Verona and especially the stones of Venice speak for themselves. His black-and-white photography starkly captures the Venetian redolence of intrigue, history and decay...
...Snow Leopard has a number of overlapping parts. There are the geographic, social and natural histories of the Himalayas, along with the day-by-day accounts of the journey: trekking in sun, rain, wind and snow; sleeping night after night in a leaky one-man tent; existing on a crude, monotonous diet; dealing with reluctant porters; avoiding the snarling village mastiffs; living with the long silences and terse exchanges on the trail; and the flora, fauna and overwhelming vistas of peaks and valleys at the top of the world. There are frequent outcroppings of autobiography as Matthiessen, scion...
...fertilized egg continues its journey, dividing as it moves through the tube. Finally, after several days, it will have become a blastocyst, a hollow, ball-shaped cluster of fewer than 100 cells. By now, it will have reached the uterus. There the blastocyst embeds itself in the uterine wall, where it begins drawing nourishment from the mother and starts the miracle of differentiation: the rapid transformation of cells into tissue that soon becomes recognizable as heart, brain, muscle, kidneys and all the other components of a living, self-sufficient being...
...journey is precarious. Unless the proper hor mones are present in appropriate concentrations, setting the stage for ovulation and fertilization, this intricate chain of events will not be initiated. The egg will not burst from the ovary, the cervical mucus will be too sticky for the entry of sufficient sperm into the uterus, and the lining of the uterus will not prepare to receive the fertilized egg. Indeed, hormonal disorders at any point in the sequence make it so fraught with peril for eggs and sperm that perhaps a third of all potential pregnancies end at the time of implantation...