Word: vacationland
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...really do scream at each other for fun, but the yelling happens to grate on my nerves. The new title certainly isn’t much more appropriate than the old one—the script’s wedding only serves as an excuse to reunite friends in vacationland. “Sing Now” follows a closely-knit a cappella group that reunites 15 years after graduation to celebrate the wedding of its seventh member. After a narrated flashback of the cast singing with bad ’80s hair, the plot darts around to introduce...
...fact, to date, I have traveled to Norway, Albion (in the hills beyond Rome), Peru, and Moscow—towns all found within the gentrified, yokel vacationland of Maine. As I’m more or less the epitome of the cash-strapped traveler—I’m working at a summer camp, after all—living in a place called Belgrade no less (if you get past the unexploded shells…), I need to do most things on the cheap...
...Harvard men’s basketball team headed to Vacationland on Saturday looking to take care of pressing business against Maine. The Crimson left with work unfinished, however, as Harvard failed to pick up its first road win of the season, falling to the Black Bears 79-66 at Memorial Gym in Orono...
...water is freezing, mud is everywhere, nearly every motel is boarded up for the winter, the information kiosks are our of their handy "Guide to Vacationland" pamphlets and the tourists carrying plastic lobsters are nowhere to be found...
...parents can pay for but not buy. "Oh, Daddy!" the five-year-old said, staring out at the magic monorail, "thank you so much for bringing me here!" The boy's father must have wondered what he or Walt Disney Co. could do for an encore. The family's vacationland adventure had just begun; in fact, they were still at Orlando International Airport, in transit from the arrivals lounge to baggage claim. It is the challenge of any parent accompanying a child to central Florida: making sure rapturous expectations are not soured by the long lines, infant attention spans...