Word: wanderlusting
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...heard this song before? Yes. But it is very sweetly sung here. Khouri writes characters, not tracts; dialogue, not bumper stickers; and she has the good sense to let the men have their say--notably Eddie, who makes Grace understand that her distraction contributed to his wanderlust...
...Francesca had a "hint" of an Italian accent, which Streep expanded to create an exaggerated, yet truly convincing, Italian voice for Francesca. Eastwood, who is also the director, is not precisely the long-haired hippie that waller describes, but is nonetheless perfect as the "last cowboy" with a profound wanderlust...
...children of immigrants and are given to feeling like aliens even in their native England. D'Arby was born in New York City, but found his muse after moving to Europe as a teen. It is perhaps this feeling of dislocation that gives such musicians the creative wanderlust to transcend standard pop. "The value of acts like Tricky and Portishead is that they're giving people fits as to how to classify them," says D'Arby. "Guess what? Most of the interesting aspects of life don't fit into an easily defined category." One hopes the curiosity and ambitious invention...
...Burlington, lowa ("a town nobody's heard of I'm sure") but lived all over Oklahoma, Arizona, Kansas, Texas at various points. Even Carter says she isn't really sure why her mother was always on the move. "Ask her," she says. "I've always woundered. She had wanderlust. She was young." Tracey's mother confirms Tracey's suggestion. "My biggest amibition in life was to travel. I had Tracey before I had the chance. She has that roving blood," she says...
...telling and serious point stands behind such graduation high jinks. In growing numbers, students in U.S. colleges and professional schools are looking to go abroad. Such wanderlust among the young is nothing new, of course; travel has traditionally been a means of letting off steam after years of cramming for exams -- a chance to see some sights, live out some romantic fantasies and pick up a cosmopolitan patina before going home to the serious business of life. The difference these days is that young people are leaving the U.S. not for pleasure or the burnishing of their education...