Word: meanderings
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...culture of overcommitment as the cause of an increasingly more frantic pace of life. Of course—8 a.m. poster runs and four-hour rehearsals leave less time for much else. But it seems our conversations about restructuring the Core, rethinking our extracurriculars and rescheduling our courseloads, all meander around one question that is rarely addressed: what is the nature of our learning...
...just 17 and both were working menial hotel jobs--with a year-round population of slightly more than 2,000. Yet even in the off-season Avon retains a certain lazy, carefree air. Sweeping front porches serve as social hubs. Traffic grinds to a halt so that ducks can meander across the street. Underemployed policemen ride around on bicycles and hand out "citations" for good behavior, redeemable for free sugar cones at Beach Plum Homemade Ice Cream...
Another unanswered existential problem: Why, if he has lived since the beginning of time and currently resides in upper Iceland, does the monster talk like a New York cabbie? The long, drawn-out conversation between Beatrice and the monster confirms the suspicion that this film is determined to dreamily meander as it pleases...
...meander through town, actually having arrived ahead of schedule, driving up and down the streets looking for some sign of life. I realize what a nonstop blast of movement, noise, conflict, talking, laughing, yelling, cell-phoning, honking and jackhammering I am subjected to during every single second of my current urban existence. I find myself on a quiet street, in a quiet town in a quiet part of the country during a quiet time of year. I stop the car in the middle of a main street, just to see if anything will happen. Sixty seconds - nothing. Two minutes - nothing...
...tours appeal to nearly anyone who has had an unfulfilled foreign vacation or left a city feeling that its essence had eluded him or her--especially London, where centuries of history cry out for interpretation. Says San Francisco travel agent Charlie Graham, who touts walks for his clients: "To meander about aimlessly, even with a guidebook or acoustic guide, can be a stupid waste of time." Guided walkers, though, become more participants than mere observers. "The tours take you down alleyways where you'd never dream of going," says 10-year veteran walker Joan Rubenstein, a retired ad saleswoman...