Word: journeyer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...course, boats and seaplanes. ("Flying in the day is like being in the ultimate movie," he writes. "[But] when you're flying at night, you're not in an airplane. You're in a spaceship.") He builds the book around his 50th birthday present to himself, an air journey through Central America, the Amazon and the Caribbean with a mind-boggling array of sportsman's toys and a retinue of family, friends and assistants. "To work with Jimmy," says pilot Jim Powell, "you've got to think and whistle at the same time." Buffett and his little boy flew...
HARCOURT BRACE would seem to have a major p.r. headache on its hands. The co-author of one of its lead fall titles, Africans in America: America's Journey through Slavery, is PATRICIA SMITH, the Boston Globe columnist who was asked to resign in June after she was found to have fabricated four columns. Harcourt executive editor Jane Isay says the firm still plans to publish the book, which was co-authored with novelist Charles Johnson and is the companion to a PBS series. "She is a wonderful writer. Her prose is riveting," says Isay, who nonetheless concedes that Harcourt...
...Director Martin Campbell doesn't quite know when to stop. At some point the number of hairbreadth assaults and escapes approaches the tiresome. But they're all well choreographed, and since the good-natured conviction of all concerned with Zorro never flags, we are carried blithely along on their journey...
...personal ethic is enlightening, but the wunderkind does have a considerable journey ahead if he ever wants to improve his prospects for genuine success. Popularity and adulation will remain elusive unless Lennon can craft a cohesive musical aesthetic and a decent live show. For now, he should latch on to the free publicity ride while searching out a definition to the new Lennon sound, a definition that is only beginning to germinate while too often struggling for a foothold...
Cambridge, I would venture, is a mite hard to know. But perhaps spending a summer here at least offers the opportunity to return to where we started and know ourselves for the first time. Or to begin the journey again...