Word: journeyer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Olympic flame, kindled at the ruins of Olympia in Greece, arrived in New York City twelve hours later aboard a U.S. Air Force jet. It was a dispiriting day for pageantry: raw, windy, drizzly. But as runners started the torch on its zigzag, 15,000-kilometer journey across 33 of the 50 American states, the dark skies seemed only to intensify the symbolic glow. The second runner, 91-year-old Abel Kiviat, silver medalist in the 1,500-meter race in the 1912 Olympics, had no inkling that anything was amiss as he ended his appointed kilometer...
...ostensibly the central issue of the film, partially developed side-plots frequently creep in. The exploits and marital problems of Arnold's uncle Andy, for example, occupy a significant part of the movie, for no apparent reason other than to ultimately send Arnold on a cross-country bus journey to the glittery world of Las Vegas. It is there that Arthur begins to open up express his emotions, and in a moving, if somewhat contrived, scene aboard a bus, Arnold (Jason Presson) confesses to a stranger that "he did a terrible thing," Arthur subsequently returns to his grandfather, who helps...
...with Pope John Paul II, whose plane was refueling there en route to South Korea (see WORLD). Posing with the Pontiff behind a lectern bearing the Presidential Seal, Reagan told a crowd of 5,000 standing in a cold drizzle that his trip to China had been a "long journey for peace." After the two leaders met privately in an airport lounge for 20 minutes, the Pope dropped Reagan off at Air Force One and returned to a runway podium for wa brief liturgy. "He is a | charming person," the "Pontiff later told reporters, "and I am not disagreeable either...
...quite so still; she would rather be at the Follies. See the white bundle a man at the rear is holding? That is the infant daughter of Dot and the artist; she will grow up in America, and in Act II her grandson George, a sculptor, will take a journey of self-discovery back to his roots on this island in the Seine...
...other. A Moon for the Misbegotten, his last completed play, is structurally the simplest of the late great work. It is also perhaps the most anguished, because O'Neill was searching so hard for a ray of hope in the dawn that completes this long night's journey into...