Word: homesick
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...midst of this full-fledged identity crisis, I stumbled upon an old- fashioned, comfortable jumble of a stationery store, sort of the office- supply version of the Homesick Restaurant. In the window was a hand- lettered sign promising 20% OFF ON 1989 CALENDARS. My epiphany came as I discovered that the 1989 black vinyl Daily Planner had been marked down to $5.06. Suddenly, just as Gail Sheehy promised, I at last understood my precise position in the Great Chain of Being. As soon as I got back to my office, I eagerly scrawled in my new datebook my sole...
...home during their missions and phone calls home are usually limited to Christmas. The rule varies at each mission, however, and Griffin says he did not call home at all during his two years away. He explains that the rule makes sense because a phone call make a person homesick, which can take energy away from his work...
...Earthly Possessions (1977) plans to leave her husband but is relieved of the decision when she is kidnaped during a bank holdup. The eccentric hero of Morgan's Passing (1980) handles the problem of freedom not with flight but with flamboyant masquerades. The poignant conceit of Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant (1982) is a beanery that resembles a kitchen where lonely people can assemble, if only for a meal. The Accidental Tourist (1985), Tyler's most winsome expression of imagination on a short tether, is about a travel writer who hates to travel...
...pink terry-cloth bathrobe, she curls up in an armchair and lets the computerized pages of the phone bill cascade to the floor: $3,967.78 worth of calls in two months. In the kitchenette, the remains of some ipapa, South African-style cornmeal bread cooked here in the wee, homesick hours after the show, lie among empty cans of grape soda...
...little choice but to return to the provinces if he wanted to continue a career in party politics. It may be too that Gorbachev felt an obligation to the Stavropol Krai (territory) authorities, who had apparently paid part of his university expenses, or that he was simply homesick...