Word: journeyings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...other way I could end this novel. With every question resolved and yet still looming, with every horror extinguished and yet still ringing, the narrator in Stewart O'Nan's A Prayer for the Dying is left only to accept his own futile insanity. Carried on a probing journey of terror and tenderness, the reader is confronted directly with his own mortality, his own anxieties, his own powerlessness...
David Arquette's character, Josie's brother Rob, is the second motivator that pushes the cathartic journey along. He was once the classmate who egged on Josie's ridicule, a ridicule which snowballed into a series of nightmarish events that the movie chronicles through periodic flashbacks. But the sophomoric days of brotherly derision are behind him, and now he boosts his sister's morale in all the right situations while trying to improve his own stagnant life. In the meantime, his antics offer some great quips and scenes guaranteed to have you doubled you over in laughter...
...motivates her to do the unthinkable. Her credibility crumbles as she becomes more entangled in her affair with Walker, and the ease with which she betrays her husband is unfathomable. The shock is enhanced by Schreibier's convincing portrayal of Marty, the model of integrity and goodness. Pearl's journey of discovery has a happy ending, though one that is tempered by the sad reality of unrealized dreams. It's a mixed fate for Pearl, whose "walk on the moon" nearly costs her everything she holds dear...
...function as a teaching tool extends to a national level, too: as part of a project called Journey North, students have planted tulip bulbs in the park. They will watch them grow and compare notes with other students via the Internet, documenting the coming of spring up and down the East Coast...
Thirteen additional F-117A Stealth fighters left Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico for Italy over the weekend. It's not a fun flight: the jets will have to refuel in air 18 times during the 14-hour journey. Stealth target lists include dozens of deeply buried bunkers in and around Belgrade. Though the Serbs are gloating that these Tito-era nuclear-bomb shelters are impregnable, they may be in for a surprise: the Nighthawks are specially trained for such missions. Navy F-18s from the carrier U.S.S. Theodore Roosevelt are expected to see action. And the U.S. Army...