Word: mara
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...change of perspective--a vacation as the equivalent of rolling over in one's sleep? Or to lose oneself? To pass through distance into some new place where the eyes become capable, for a moment, of a fresh transparency. Slide into the Pleistocene: under a thorn tree in Masai Mara, say, a cheetah tears at the Thomson's gazelle it has nailed for lunch. All around in a semicircle, the minibuses sprout glaring bwanas from their sunroofs. The onion peels...
Associate Professor Mara Prentiss yesterday became second woman in the history of the physics department to receive tenure from that department...
...Scott gets into trouble because he wants to rescue his son (Eric Lloyd) from the rationalism of his psychiatrist stepfather (Judge Reinhold), who keeps insisting that it is unhealthy for the boy to believe in fantasy figures. In Miracle, Kriss has to perform the same task for Susan Walker (Mara Wilson), whose Mom (an overchilled Elizabeth Perkins) represents unyielding reason...
...Dexter 1 (Mara, Baaid...
...result of the Albright attack, Gans says NOLS trips will no longer travel to the Masai-Mara area. Instead, student groups will spend more time around Mount Kenya, he says...