Word: journey
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...CUBA: A JOURNEY...
...when it sticks to narrative. But after a few tantalizing glimpses, he is back in his room, reading the island through government documents. The result is scarcely more distinctive than trying to interpret the U.S. through the self-contradictions and bromides of a Ronald Reagan speech. Ultimately, Cuba: A Journey is not really about Cuba, or a journey; it is rather an appraisal of the Cuban system by a man who might have come to the same conclusions without ever leaving home...
Over the course of their journey they encounter peculiar artifacts (egg beaters, a 1972 photo clip of Richard Nixon) and individuals (a cannibal with an Alsace-Lorrainean accent, a beatnik troll) who lead them to the realization that they are not just travelling over land, but through time and into the future...
HAMLET. What do you do if your parents are George C. Scott and Colleen Dewhurst? If you are Campbell Scott, you go into the family business, appear on Broadway in Long Day's Journey into Night and on film in Longtime Companion, then scale the actor's Everest in this stirring production at San Diego's Old Globe Theater...
Clay's story is a search for completeness and for acceptance. His mother's ancestors pioneered west across the Atlantic, across the Mississippi and the Great Plains, finally arriving in Seattle. Clay's journey east, back to the superficial, Puritan world of his father's boyhood is in a sense a journey of alienation. He seeks to enter his father's world to claim a forgotten part of his heritage, but other parts of his heritage forbid him entry...