Word: journeyer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...journey to this poignant, uneven movie, through a succession of worse and better ones, began in Cleveland Heights, a comfortable suburb of Cleveland, where Paul was born in 1925. He was the second son of Arthur S. Newman, a prosperous Jewish partner in a sporting-goods store, and Theresa Fetzer, a Hungarian-descended Catholic. By the time Paul and his brother Arthur, now 58, a film production manager living in Lake Arrowhead, Calif., were children, Theresa was a Christian Scientist. Paul's exposure to that faith did not make any lasting impression (he has followed no religion...
...repressive regimes in Pretoria. But it is one of the few volumes that attempt to understand the descendants of settlers who were themselves the despised and disenfranchised people of the veld. American Journalist Barbara Villet, whose photographer husband grew up in a suburb of Cape Town, starts her journey in modern South Africa, then begins "trekking away from time" back to the 17th century, when a group of Dutch Calvinists sets out for Cape Town. The tiny white minority see themselves as a new chosen people, driven by religious fervor and economic distress. By the 19th century their descendants have...
...same rolling green hills, large dark forests and blue sky with willowy clouds dominate the landscape throughout most of the unicorn's journey. Gorgeous natural occurrences make some scenes--rain falls onto rushing rapids, or an ancient castle totters over the edge of a tremendous precipice. The occassional glimpses, though, don't compensate for the monotomy of the rest of the terrain...
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WHEN PRESIDENT REAGAN arrived in Brazil yesterday at the start of a five-day trip to Latin America, he found a country in dire economic straits. Each subsequent stop during the journey--in Colombia. Costa Rica, and Honduras--will present Reagan with a similarly gloomy picture. The central dilemma for all of these countries is the same--they depend on exports to the United States and other developed nations for economic solvency. But the industrialized world, in the midst of a recession, cannot continue to gobble up Latin American goods and spit out cash or other products in return. Instead...