Word: walks
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...Yunzhong lives in Ansha township, 19 miles from the city of Changsha. Ten minutes' walk up the valley from his two-room house he pointed out where the Zhu clan's palace once stood. It had "dozens of rooms" and a covered walkway leading over the hill to the family temple. "We used to say that whichever path you took from here to Changsha, you had to pass over Zhu land," says Yunzhong. The palace was destroyed in an antilandlord campaign in the 1950s, but Zhu's privileged background was not forgotten by Mao's regime...
...province's 1.8 million Albanians was swift and brutal. Arife Bajrami, 30, who fled to Kukes, Albania, from Izbice, in central Kosovo, said Serbs told residents to assemble at the local schoolyard. The Serbs demanded money from the women in exchange for their lives. "They made us walk for two hours to another village, then they marched us back again, just making fun of us," Bajrami said. "We had no food. I saw one old lady die on the road." As she trudged along the muddy road to Albania, local Serbs shouted, "Your land will be ours now! Where...
...former state supreme court justice, Archer is known for long deliberation before he acts. Not much studying was required here: only half of Detroit's high school students graduate, most basic supplies--from textbooks to toilet paper--somehow have trouble making it into schools, and teachers routinely walk out on strike. While Archer has succeeded in reducing crime and luring Big Business since taking over as mayor in 1994, he says the city's decades-long flight of middle-class residents can't be reversed unless the city's schools get better. "Any mayor in the country will tell...
...Walk on the Moon, set in the summer of 1969, raises similar issues: How young can you get old? And can you get young again? Pearl Kantrowitz (Diane Lane), who is maybe 32, thinks she's an old lady because she has a tepid husband Marty (Liev Schreiber) and a daughter Alison (Anna Paquin) who at 14 is revving up for the sexual adventures Pearl never enjoyed. She says of Alison, "I just hope she doesn't end up like us." Poor Pearl. In a Catskills bungalow not far from Woodstock, she feels she's already come to a dead...
Enter romantic possibility--or, in a coming-of-middle-age tale like this, inevitability--in the lank person of Walker Jerome (Viggo Mortensen), a peddler they call "the blouse man." While the others watch Neil Armstrong walk on the moon, Pearl is in the back of the blouse man's truck becoming a giddy, blossoming girl again. A few weeks later, she goes with him to Woodstock, gets baptized in Day-Glo body paint and is spotted by a horrified Alison. My mother--the hippie whore...