Word: wanderlusting
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...something darker is afoot. Mary is having an affair with the bar owner's son, a handsome man with connections to the Yakuza, the Japanese organized crime syndicate. As the relationship deepens, her travel plans keep receding. "Every one of his embraces squeezes a little more of the wanderlust out of me," the smitten Mary confesses. The book's focus quickly shifts to two other members of the Sayonara circle who tell their entwined stories in alternating chapters. One is Sato, a conscientious corporate drone who is dragged to the lounge by his boss. Sato is distraught over the recent...
...transfer veterans, respectively—who were prepared to help me get acclimated to my new surroundings. The Links threw us a party, and it was then that I made my first and closest Harvard friendship. We bonded over music, books, and a keen sense of wanderlust, a trait that took us on 2 a.m. runs to rural Connecticut and spur-of-the-moment interstate memory trips. Things were starting to look good...
...best-known for making hard-boiled, melodramatic, semi-autobiographical genre films that draw on his own ample personal life experience. By the age of 29, Fuller was an aspiring filmmaker, a promising pulp novelist, and a seasoned crime journalist. Fuller’s experiences show a man defined by wanderlust, an evaluation supported by his justification for enlisting to fight in World War II. “I had a helluva opportunity to witness the biggest crime story of the century, and nothing was going to stop me from being an eyewitness,” he said...
...most important lesson to be learned from time abroad curtails the wanderlust slightly; despite all the high-flying adventures of time abroad, I’ve learned again how terribly much my friends at home—or in Uganda, Paris and London—mean...
...panorama "reads" from right to left, from infancy to death. The despairing figure of old age, seated with head in hands, echoes the position of a Peruvian mummy Gauguin saw at the Paris Exposition of 1889, the colonial extravaganza that was one of the catalysts for his Tahitian wanderlust. The piece will return home when the show moves to Boston in February. Vuillard is the most comprehensive exhibit ever dedicated to the artist, with 230 paintings, drawings, photographs and theatrical posters produced between the late 1880s and the 1930s. The young artist's red-orange beard provides a perfect Nabi...