Word: wanderlusting
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...over. But now other travel-related businesses, especially hotels, are scrambling for a piece of the action by offering rock-bottom prices and vacation specials. That's good news for American travelers clutching cheap, freshly purchased air tickets. But after two years of waiting for consumers to get the wanderlust again, many travel firms see the boom as a mixed blessing...
...This wanderlust brought him to Rensselaer, although the choice between the Engineers and the Irish was mostly a financial decision. Rensselaer offered a full, four-year grant-in-aid scholarship, while Notre Dame proferred a partial scholarship...
Last is best. Ernest Hemingway's Hills Like White Elephants (directed by Tony Richardson) is a vignette from 1925 Spain. At a dusty rural railway station, a writer with wanderlust (James Woods) and his pregnant girlfriend (Melanie Griffith) warily discuss what is never explicitly mentioned: an abortion. Writers John Gregory Dunne and Joan Didion produced dialogue that is Earnestly true, not faux Papa. Woods, edgy as usual, and Griffith, her little- girl voice on the edge of tears, generate real sexual tension...
...WANDERLUST: LET'S GET LOST...
...pages. Happily, Theroux's hero is a man of ironic intelligence and amusing self-awareness. He believes that comedy is the "highest expression of truth" and, conversely, that the funniest things are frequently the truest. This makes for considerable humor arising from grim situations. Moreover, Parent's wanderlust means a frequent change of scenery and a liberating sense that, as the playwright Tom Stoppard put it, every exit is an entrance somewhere else...