Word: whirlwinding
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...Even undergraduate travel fellowships come with their set of dangers. While some fellowships require a specific travel project, others explicitly allocate money for personal travel and exploration, which risks devolving into a blind whirlwind of American tourism. Such a devolution is risky, because tourism is an industry that caters to its customers; thus it often has a large impact on local cultural practices. Scholars have raised many concerns about this commodification of culture; as Robert Shepard writes, the tourist gaze has the power to turn culture into a spectacle and local peoples into facades of themselves...
...briefly at NYU's film school and reconnected years later at an alumni event. We were married six months after that, in 1993. We had sort of a whirlwind romance and planned our wedding quickly in a strange town where we knew no one. Several years later, when we were looking to get out of the work-for-hire world, a friend of ours brought up weddings. Lightning bolts went off in the room, and everyone thought, This is brilliant. Young people, the first to adopt the Internet, have a lot of money to spend in a short period...
...completing the task, Farooqi has given world literature a gift. That's not to say that it's without flaws. The faithful rendition occasionally gets a bit confusing - mostly due to its whirlwind of countless characters and lightning-quick changes of scene. But it does succeed in offering, in Farooqi's words, "a bridge between [Adventures] and the modern world." Non-Urdu-speaking readers can at last appreciate an epic "on par with anything in the Western canon." And, with luck, the classical pantheon populated by indomitable Achilles, cunning Odysseus and righteous King Arthur will now be joined...
...limited. "There weren't that many offers for someone in Poland with a philosophy degree," she explains. So Pas moved to Ireland and within a few months found herself launching, editing and co-owning Polski Express, a Polish-language fortnightly glossy magazine published in Ireland. It has been a whirlwind year. "I can't imagine this would be happening in Poland," gushes...
...says maintaining his academics is not the hardest part of being an athlete. “It’s trying to fit in a social life that I’ve had more trouble with.” When Davis began at Harvard, life was not such a whirlwind. Though he wanted to do both diving and crew—two sports he had competed in throughout high school—the swimming coach discouraged him from taking on too many commitments. As a result, Davis competed only on the freshman crew team his first year. Soon thereafter...