Word: travel
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Airline profits have gained altitude in recent years, with full jets and rising prices providing lift. According to Tom Parsons, editor of Best Fares Discount Travel Magazine, the major airlines have boosted fares 37 times since May 1992. Fares are up 18% since January, with business travelers shouldering a 25% increase. No other industry in the country currently has such pricing power...
...clever performer and a witty lyricist, the man behind the Mountain Goats on his own terms stands as a giant of the bedroom-music scene. No matter that his following bears more resemblance to a secret club than music fans. Or that his set list is a conglomeration of travel itineraries and Latin aphorisms. With a broad smile and a warm hello, the club president is open and welcoming, and his concerts are large circles of friends who are all too eager to invite you into their slightly abnormal lives...
...chord progressions and reptition form the structure of the Mountain Goats' music as the textured vocals offer meat and body to the songs. Beneath their basic melodic appeal, songs carry meaning in their own wrenching emotional code, typically loaded with jarring imagery and obscure references to mythology and world travel. The intention of some songs could be construed to send the listener reaching for a dictionary, as Darnielle sounds somewhat like a bored college student...
...group of us--led by Michael Duffy, Nancy Gibbs and Eric Pooley of our political team--concluded that it would be useful (and fun) to travel across the country listening to what was really on people's minds. Thus was born our "Backbone of America" project. We decided to take old U.S. Highway 50, which runs right through the center of the country. With a revolving cast of writers, editors and photographers (coordinated by special-projects editor Barrett Seaman), we visited factories and shops, ate at local cafes and in people's homes, joined in town meetings, played in pool...
After the NATO summit in Spain next week, Secretary of State MADELEINE ALBRIGHT will travel to Eastern Europe to assuage the hard feelings of countries not on the list for immediate admission and to congratulate those who are, like her homeland, the Czech Republic. Though State Department officials say her visit to Prague will deal with NATO matters only, Albright will inevitably have to address her recently revealed Jewish heritage. Aides say she might consider a pilgrimage to the Pinkas Synagogue, where the names of 80,000 Holocaust victims are inscribed on the walls. Among them are five members...