Word: straying
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...SURPRISING that the characters in Anne Tyler's latest family portrait, The Accidental Tourist, suffer from "geographic dyslexia." Like her usual cast of eccentric homebodies, members of the Leary family tend to become disoriented anytime they stray too far from the familiar hearth. Regardless of how tempting the escape, something--guilt, injury, an Oedipal chord, the boys eating too much glop for breakfast--inevitably draws them back to the comfort and complacency of home, sweet home...
...Fred Jewett '57, the new dean of the College, doesn't appear likely to stray from the Harvard line when he deals with the big issues he will face...
...father in dreams; Leary's closest companion is Edward, his son's Welsh corgi. Unruly and nippy, the dog requires the services of Muriel, an obedience trainer at Meow-Bow kennel. She is an untypical breed in "truncated black suede boots with witchy toes and needle heels," a streetwise stray looking for a home. The Maryland working girl eventually gets a leash around Macon, who wants his wife back but breaks a leg and has to move in with his brothers and sister. The Learys are a close family of bottle-cap manufacturers who play a private card game called...
...place where individuals can freely seek it formation, open discussion and express opinion. Until mid-May, I thought that the administrators, faculty, and other officers of the University attempted to their fullest ability to make Harvard and Radcliffe such a place. It disturbs me greatly to watch the University stray so greatly from its founding promises. Anioinette M Riley...
...MANY ARTISTS, the photograph is not merely an instrument to capture an instant of life which they have uncovered. The image on film can be as abstract as a stray brush stroke on canvas. Many of the photographers have hidden their pictures, unfocused or brushed over them, to obscure the subject and highlight the shapes. The photographs have become, for better or worse...