Word: journeyer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...also meets the young woman who helped him, whom, we do not learn until much later, is called Pauline de Theus, and is the wife of a marquis. He assists her in crossing the border, and insists on riding with her as guide and protector. As the two journey on together they build a curious kind of relationship, which never develops into intimacy since each quickly encounters a quality of deep reserve in the other. In due course, Pauline unbends slightly, but is confounded by Angelo's total impenetrability. For though he obviously cares for her and never leaves...
...gruesome irony is that the crash proved to be the best television story of all. Jessica completing her journey would have been the spirit-lifting final story on the evening news, the tale of human triumph over which anchors could smile winsomely and then say good-night, leaving the viewer with the feeling that all was right with the world. But Jessica's plane crash led all three network news broadcasts and headlined the front pages of newspapers across the country...
...create from afar every last rending detail of his clamorous hometown. His books are living rooms that open up onto whole worlds. And with characteristic deliberation, he has steadily moved from a first collection of stories (Swimming Lessons) to a prizewinning mid-length novel (Such a Long Journey) to this new epic, which is worthy of the 19th century masters of tragic realism, from Hardy to Balzac. In response, perhaps, to a world that has "a phobia about anything in slow motion," it restores the old-fashioned virtues of attention and compassion...
...globe the other day," says the 42-year-old trainer, though in truth he has been hard at work on the logistics of the trip for months. He knows that Dubai's track surface is like Belmont's, that the hay there is from Washington State, and that the journey for Cigar will take 18 to 20 hours, stall to stall, counting a refueling layover at Shannon Airport in Ireland. Fortunately, Cigar flies well, as befits a horse owned by Gulfstream Aerospace magnate Allen Paulson and named not for the smoke but for an aviation checkpoint in the Gulf...
...millions of sperm, with considerable force, into his partner's vaginal canal. Despite the head start, most of the tiny, tadpole-shape, self-propelled cells never come within shouting distance of the woman's egg, floating deep inside the Fallopian tube. And if one does finally complete the journey, it may or may not have the energy left for fertilization...