reading.org/choices Armchair Travelers For collegians who are not studying abroad this summer, the literature produced by Anna Akhmatova, Günter Grass and Mo Yan offers at least a taste of other cultures and heritage.
And, thanks to YouTube, I've gotten a taste of other productions and performances around the world (my favorite YouTube Norma is Helen Schneider from the original German cast -- just watch).
Here's my full review, with a taste of some other folks' reaction below.
During a frenetic five days the American and Cuban dancers got a taste of each other's worlds.
Miserable as it is now, we are getting just a taste of what other regions will be suffering through next week, and farther south, into next month.
A Taste of Strudel Other places to eat include John's Cafe (693 Main Street South, 203-263-0188), where the dining room (French ladder back chairs, black and white striped curtains and charcoal ceilings) is overseen by the chef-owner Bill Okesson.
All I knew, just when our neighborhood's social life had grown so routed through the Reptile Farm Canteen, just as I'd got, first, the taste of poison, then a taste of what other people's physical-type lives must be like and, I guess, daily — here came the state to close him down.
This was the end of a summer of soccer in the United States, a defeat that gave the many new converts to the game a taste of the other side of this sport, the immense and, at times, the cruel sense of disappointment that so many countries have experienced at some point.
It appears that the government has developed a taste for other symbols of power, of the kind that were till recently in the preserve of regional-powers-with-adversaries.
If you want to get a taste of something few other travelers experience, explore East Timor both above and especially below (it's a top dive spot) the water line.
I don't want to be reduced to a coarse stereotype of my race or made to feel like the only reason why I am being considered as a potential partner is because they have watched a lot of "ebony" porn and would love to get a taste of the unusual "other," but sometimes it seems an inevitable part of dating.
