Word: journeyer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...MATTERHORN IS the best ride in Disneyland. That's what I thought when I discovered the phantasmal bobsled journey through the mountain of rock and ice, on my first visit to the Magic Kingdom. My first trip to California at age 12 was a lot like my favorite ride--a blur of all things wondrous and exciting. After I left the Golden State, I vowed to move there as soon as I grew up. For the seven years since then, the state always conjured up visions of sun and surf, stucco and success...
...liberalizing influence of General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev, however, Moscow has had a change of heart. Last week's returnees were the third group in the past three months to flock home. According to Foreign Ministry Spokesman Gennadi Gerasimov, 1,000 more emigres are awaiting permission to make the same journey. "Now that we are opening our borders for them," Gerasimov said, "the number of such requests is growing...
LONG DAY'S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT Jonathan Miller's swift, funny rendering of an often lugubrious work was not so much a revival as a rediscovery. It proved that O'Neill's lyric family tragedy can work as gritty naturalism...
...fuel to take it 23,000 miles. But last week, while the attention of the nation was directed toward weightier, more dispiriting matters in Washington, Voyager sailed over the Pacific, over Africa and into the South Atlantic, more than halfway home, offering the world a needed distraction. Voyager's journey called to mind Charles Lindbergh's daring solo flight across the Atlantic in 1927, and last week the Lone Eagle's widow was tracking the plane's progress. "I am holding my breath for them," said Anne Morrow Lindbergh of the crew. "What they are doing takes great courage...
Although the 1920s and 1930s are remembered as a golden age for mysteries, that era's exemplar, Agatha Christie, and most of her contemporaries had no gift for taking readers on a journey into another culture or milieu. The fun lay chiefly in guessing, if one cared, who killed Roger Ackroyd. Nowadays, Christie's kind of puzzle, based on clues larded into the text, has largely given way to a more novelistic brand of mystery, in which the solution may not matter that much to either the writer or the reader. The motive for a crime is more likely...