Word: wanderluster
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...like finding a cure for cancer, or being an artist." A graduate of the Fashion Institute of Technology in 1964, Norma Ar-raez's real goal was to be a painter. But not a starving one. So instead she started out as a fashion illustrator. Wanderlust struck in 1966, however, and she joined an airline as a reservations clerk. On trips abroad, she always stopped in London to pick up far-out fashions, and in 1968 she and Mohammed Houssein Kamali, her Persian-student husband of one year, opened a New York shop of imported clothes...
Behind much of the wanderlust is the strong recovery of the U.S. dollar against most other currencies. So far this year, the U.S. currency has risen 20% against the once proud West German mark, 23% against the battered French franc and 20% against the British pound. Smiled San Francisco Surgeon Roy Carson, boarding a plane to visit relatives in Sweden: "We watched the dollar go down, and now we're watching it come back up again...
While the war inspired wanderlust, it also made travel a more complicated and anxious business. The passport, which had hardly existed in Europe before 1915, became ubiquitous. Fussell argues that this intervention by the state amounted to more than a bureaucratic inconvenience: "So small a phenomenon as the passport picture is an example of something tiny which has powerfully affected the modern sensibility, assisting that anxious self-awareness, that secret but overriding self-contempt, which we recognize as attaching uniquely to the world of P frock and Joseph K. and Malone." In addition, the war left Europe with a bewildering...
Though it is not billed as an adventure or endurance test, Sea Semester tends to attract students who are tinged with wanderlust. Says Greg Montgomery, 20, a University of Virginia junior: "At school I have a 3.5 average, and I take academics very seriously, but I was getting stale." "Most kids this age are dying for a way to prove themselves," says Cramer. "The Peace Corps appealed to that. How many other ways are there today for a 20-year-old to exercise real responsibility and show that he's good...
...Americans. "Boys Keep Swinging" sets the throbbing electronic pulse of "Heroes" to lyrics that sound like Bowie's answer to the Village People. He's always skirted the epicene, of course, and this is just a bit of harmless camp, but it seems out of place next to the wanderlust and cosmopolitan vigor of the rest of the album...