Word: journeyer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Although the songs themselves are undisciplined, Young has carefully constructed Live Rust as a thematic progression, a roadmap of his journey. The tour begins appropriately with "Sugar Mountain," a song he wrote on his nineteenth birthday...
...Russian Empire has been conceived as a journey traversing what was the largest empire in modern history. Obolensky has charted the course from St. Petersburg and Moscow, across the Volga, the Urals and Siberia to the empire's frontier on the Pacific Ocean. The photographs then take the viewer back through Central Asia, the Caucasus and the Crimea to Russia's western borderlands at the Carpathian Mountains and the Baltic Sea. This approach permits Obolensky to include some of the exotic peoples and tribes that, like the Russians who colonized them, have long since lost much of their...
This is, as Le Roy Ladurie senses, the stuff of old drama with modern resonances. Yet Carnival in Romans is no mere clone of Montaillou: it is a more demanding work-a long day's journey into light. In that sense it is a braver book. The author dares, for example, to spend the entire second chapter talking about taxes. He cannot do otherwise. If sex and its avoidance preoccupied Montaillou, taxes and their avoidance seem to have preoccupied Romans and the countryside around...
...ESCAPE to nature theme of this film could have been a little subtler. And singing "America the Beautiful" with majestic, purple mountains in the distance would be better left to Sunday school kids in Salt Lake City. The second half of the film, a journey on foot to introduce Rising Star to a herd of mustangs, is filled with lines like: "You can name anything anything;" "This country's where I live;" "I'm seeing this country for the first time;" "We're all going to heaven or we're not;" "I been hurt--you still get up." No doubt...