Word: journeyer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...those familiar with director David Lynch's work (Eraserhead, Blue Velvet, Twin Peaks and Lost Highway), this storyline, which is based on the actual journey made by 73-year-old Alvin Straight (Richard Farnsworth), seems right up Lynch's alley---quirky and Midwestern, with a lawnmower thrown in for good measure. Interestingly enough, Lynch was initially opposed to directing The Straight Story. But after reading the screenplay written by Mary Sweeney and John Roach, Lynch was won over: "[I] wasn't interested in it. I never thought I would make this story, but the screenplay turned me around. I loved...
...through it? Not to be a complete moral relativist, but I wonder who'd really care what happened to Alvin? Alvin Straight traveled from Iowa to Wisconsin in 1994. I didn't know this before I read the press release and I probably never would have understood Straight's journey without Lynch's film...
Ever since Admiral Peary made his third and finally successful journey to the North Pole 90 years ago, there have been dreamers who saw themselves skiing to the top of the earth. Very few have done so, of course, because it's hard going--and because only in the past decade have travel companies offered would-be Arctic explorers the kind of expedition they could manage. The company that pioneered such trips, Northwest Passage, is planning its fifth trek to the geographic North Pole starting in early February with a six-day training session on Baffin Island. In April...
...sudden, I can barely wait for the next chance to step outside. I make excuses to take the long way homeosometimes I even wander through the streets of Cambridge with nothing on my mind but a desire to avoid a journey indoors. When I'm out in the autumn air, it's as if I'm magically transported far away from Harvard. It's as if I'm 10 years old, right back at home in Ridgewood...
Pizzeria Uno, Bertucci's, Au Bon Pain and the Hi-Rise Bread Company all donated food to sustain the walkers during their four-mile journey...