Word: pilgrim
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...searching for The Meaning of Life, it is an excellent idea to maintain your good nature while pursuing the quest. It smooths out the highs (the inevitable lamasery in the Himalayas) and the lows (a stint of hard labor in a French coal mine), and it makes the earnest pilgrim a lot easier for his friends (not to mention the movie audience) to take. Besides, playful self-deflation suits Bill Murray, who only did Ghostbusters in return for a shot at the second screen version of Somerset Maugham's most gaseous novel. The laid-back eccentricity of his Larry...
Perhaps the Pilgrim nation has run out of places to wander to, and thus clings to a term that implies a perpetual future...
Since there is neither room nor occasion to put everybody up at once, pilgrimages to the old folks' place are made individually. Gone are the days when, say, over a turkey, the family had the chance to take the full measure of itself. Now each pilgrim takes back a piece of his heritage, something that was overlooked when the possessions were divided before the move took place. (Here is a yellowed card, signed on Feb. 12, 1911, confirming membership in the "Abstinence Department of the Anti-Saloon League." It pledges abstinence, saying further that intoxicating beverages are "productive...
...Eloquent Pilgrim with a Message of Peace...
...Sodom and Gomorrah/ But what do you care? Ain't nobody there would want to marry your sister." The jokerman of the title, like many of Dylan's metaphorical protagonists, is part salvation hunter, part satanic twister, and the whole record is like a loosely arranged pilgrim's progress through emotional listlessness and political chaos. Sweetheart Like You, with a lovely and insinuating melody, takes the oldest cliche in the pickup book ("What's a sweetheart like you doin' in a dump like this?") and works from a sexy come-on into an image...