Word: journeyer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...heart and goes to Barcelona in search of Esteban's father, a transvestite originally an Esteban himself but now Lola the Pioneer. The depiction of one train moving forward and another train moving backward, when coupled with Manuela's voice-over of the history and purpose for her journey detract from Almodvar's intention that the scene serve as a point of transition and departure. In an almost music-video-like sequence, a distraught Manuela peruses the local transvestite meat market. She does not find Lola, but she does come upon La Agrado (Antonia San Juan), or the agreeable...
...little bit more involved than you might think, other than just going up there and playing recorded music or music that I myself have recorded before and am playing. It's more than that; I hope to take people on some kind of a journey, so that it has a beginning, a middle and an end, rather than just playing one song or another...
...days when he valiantly came to the aid of stranded British soldiers. His efforts failed, however, and the Boers took the soldiers and Churchill as prisoners-of-war. Churchill spent a month, which included his twenty-fifth birthday, in captivity before he escaped and made a treacherous eleven-day journey out of Pretoria. Notwithstanding huge rewards offered for "W.S. Churchill, Dead or Alive," he arrived safely in Durban, where he learned that he was a hero not merely in the British press, but in the world's press. And what did Churchill then do? He immediately requested and received...
...viatical is not another impotence wonder drug. Rather, a viatical (from the Latin viaticum, a payment given to Roman officials before embarking on a journey) is a way for a terminally ill or elderly person (the viator) to get money before he dies by selling his life-insurance policy at a discount. The discount, usually 10% to 40% of the policy's face value, is based on the viator's life expectancy; once the viator dies and a broker takes a commission, the investor collects the rest of the benefits. A decade ago, viaticals were embraced by the AIDS community...
Around the turn of the century, a little girl named Evelyn Dougherty migrated with her family from a hardscrabble farm near Sarnia, Ont., to central Michigan. The journey looms large in the consciousness of her grandson, Michigan Governor John Engler. "We should never forget how much of this state was settled by immigrants from the north," he observed in his airy office across the street from the state capitol building in Lansing. Engler is not about to develop amnesia. His ambitious economic plans for Michigan depend in no small part on the intimate connections forged between his state...