Word: journeyer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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when our eyes met, the adults would turn their heads or stare downwards. The most frustrating aspect of the journey to Leningrad proved to be my inability to converse with anyone. Even in the Hotel, the employees there met me--it seemed--very coolly and remained at a distance...
...married to the chassis. Sea voyages were deemed too dangerous for the handcrafted metalwork and delicate lacquer finish, so the bodies will be flown to the U.S. by jumbo jet. Pininfarina will send a planeload every other day once production gets under way, but the added cost of the journey will hardly be noticed by the new car's prospective buyers. The Callisto's price is expected...
...past, that journey was arduous and often tragic for Soviet exiles, particularly for those poets and writers who fled their country after the 1917 Revolution. A few, like Vladimir Nabokov, joined the mainstream of modern literature and enriched it. A handful returned in desperation to the Soviet Union, only to perish hi Stalin's camps, like the eminent critic Dmitri Mirsky, or by suicide, as in the case of the great idiosyncratic poet Marina Tsvetayeva. Many remained stranded on alien shores where their writing disappeared with scarcely a trace...
Long Day's Journey Into Night is one of O'Neill's greatest plays--intricate, jarring and painfully honest. The play does not delight or entertain, but rather distresses the audience with an intimate look at the self-destructive network of O'Neill's own family...
Although the acting and special effects sometimes border on the maudlin, this production of Long Day's Journey Into Night is in general perceptive. We can almost hear the ominous lowing of the foghorn, almost sense the hovering fog which Mary finds so protective: "It hides you from the world and the world from you. You feel everything has changed and nothing is what it seemed to be. No one can find you or touch you anymore." While this play offers no solutions or hopes for this family, it is thought-provoking and, for the most part, a highly depressing...