Word: journey
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...glee in De Palma's satirical vision of high school society, an oddly compelling power in his juxtaposition of the banal and the awesome moving unsuspected amidst it. The moral reckoning to which that all leads may be curious, but it is surely cautionary. In any event, the journey to that reckoning is an exercise in high style that even the most unredeemably rational among moviegoers should find enormously enjoyable...
...many more to keep; for the campaign staffs and assorted workers, who succeeded and failed, and for whom there will always be another campaign; for the reporters, who have returned from the sky for a few more years, and who should spend more time in contemplation during the next journey; and for the voters, who, after all, are responsible for all of the above...
...variety of reason, a variety of women took a sweatsuit, an oar, and a rigorous program of exercise, and began the journey towards competition on the river early this fall. The journey starts with novice crew...
Africa may be the only place where such figures as Brother Blue can survive in the future. But until he can fund a journey, he will remain in Cambridge, continuing to entertain and counsel people in the streets...
Born on the Fourth of July is Kovic's simple and moving account of his ten-year journey out of that bedridden impotence, towards a new reconciliation with life and an expiation of the Vietnam experience. In the telling, he leads us back through a Catholic working-class childhood in Massapequa, Long Island, his high school days and Marine boot camp. It is the story of the maturation of a young man who says his manhood has been "defiled." By the end, Ron Kovic is still paralyzed, but he is no cripple...