Word: travels
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...related novels (including the prize-winning The Book of Saints), comes to a mist-wreathed climax in Where She Has Gone (Picador USA; 325 pages; $25). Here the sins of the Old World seep across the New as blood across a sheet. Vittorio Innocente--the name itself doesn't travel light--lives unanchored in a Toronto of immigrants, with nothing, as he says, but his freedom. Driving around town in his late father's Oldsmobile, he cannot slough off his mother's infidelity and the out-of-wedlock child she bore, while dying herself, on the passage to America...
WHEN IN ROME... For some dos and don'ts to remember this travel season, we checked out our travel guides and checked in with protocol expert Mary Kay Metcalf at Creative Marketing Alliance in New Jersey. Our oy!tiquette tips...
...attend. Yeltsin is reputed to be in awe of Likhachev, a specialist in early Russian literature and a survivor of one of the worst of the early Soviet political prisons, where in previous centuries the Orthodox Church sent its dissidents. Soon after the call, Yeltsin announced he would travel to St. Petersburg, and during the ceremony Likhachev stood just behind the President...
...would be Decalogue, the 10-part cycle of short films that Krzysztof Kieslowski made for Polish TV in 1988-89. Long withheld from U.S. distribution, the series will be shown this week at Manhattan's Walter Reade Theater. A cinephile's fondest hope is that the series will soon travel to other venues or be released on videocassette. And not a moment too soon, for Decalogue may be the great film achievement of the past decade...
...after either the district of San Francisco or the Cuban dictator or both, given the number of red dresses), I wondered why Israel is populated with so many things American. One potential answer is the most superficial: people speak English here as their second language, as a way to travel the world and to serve their own tourists. The seeping of American foods and names into the culture, then, makes sense, but it should be more uninvited, less sought-after. This explanation justifies the ubiquitous Coca-Cola, but what about other, original products with names like "Spring" and "Jump" that...