Word: journeyer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Thief, 1980, the mural whose installation at Miami International Airport was successfully opposed by Frank Borman, then president of Eastern Airlines, is 17 ft. by 46 ft.) is a bit like seeing one of the lost panoramas that were so popular in 19th century America scrolling creakily past, a journey re-created as spectacle, stripped of its pastoral imagery and retooled in terms of media glut. Hey, look! you hear the nasal voice of the artist saying: this is what the banks of the electronic Mississippi look like as they glide by. Here is a succession of odd dreams, bigger...
From parody to paradigm in less than two hours: it is a journey few movie heroes ever make. But then, few movies attempt to shift moods as radically as Nothing in Common does. Start with David Basner (Tom Hanks), prince of the yuppies, a man whose smooth rise in an ad agency is not allowed to interfere with his commitment to the uncommitted singles life. Then watch as his aged parents (Jackie Gleason and Eva Marie Saint) separate. The father loses his job and health just as the son is about to land a prize account. Now David must face...
Early travelers tended to emphasize wonders at the expense of precision, secure in the belief that no one would make the same arduous journey simply to contradict them. A colleague of Magellan's reported a strange sight in Patagonia: "One day, without anyone expecting it, we saw a giant, who was on the shore of the sea, quite naked, and was dancing and leaping, and singing, and whilst singing he put the sand and dust on his head . . . He was so tall that the tallest of us only came up to his waist." After the dawn of the Enlightenment...
...seal of red wax to office doors. Arafat's top aide, Khalil Wazir, better known by his nom de guerre, Abu Jihad, was told to leave the country within 48 hours when he arrived at his office in the Jebel Amman district. Before embarking on a 450-mile auto journey across the desert to Baghdad, Wazir said, "We are sorry about this decision because we wanted to strengthen Palestinian-Jordanian relations." He added defiantly, "We are not in a cage. We still have bases everywhere, doing the P.L.O.'s work...
...girl whose name she didn't know in a house she's never seen with parents she's never spoken to, Debbie bursts out crying. "I don't like not knowing you," she sobs, "I want us to be a couple." But it's soon apparent that the journey backwards from sex to love to commitment necessarily pushes obstacles in the way of coupling...