He tells us about his far-flung travels, his success at promoting authors and literary movements, his academic honors, pop-culture celebrity and the controversies stirred up by his previous writings.

Amused and amusing, she tells me a long, complicated tale of her own far-flung travels.

Ships made far-flung travel and trade more comfortable and economical, and they added a whole new facet to warfare.

Almost 20 years of far-flung travels and odd jobs followed before he finally put three loves - narrative, music and visual arts - together, writing and directing a short film, "The Mountain King," in 2000.

The far-flung travels of Pope John Paul, whose health has deteriorated in recent months, may well be over, with one ardent wish still unrealized: to make a trip as pope to Russia.

The range of motifs is vast, from stylized natural elements - a butterfly, a bunch of grapes, a fiddlehead fern, a conch shell - to gutsy abstract forms drawn from her far-flung travels.

If you have formed the impression of an unhappy life, you would be wrong; the happy chaos of a large family more than compensates for the lost years of youth, of far-flung travel and of parties.

There she first learns the reaches of her powers and assumes the bird shapes that will serve her on her far-flung travels.

When she wakes up in the morning, Dr. Vexler, 43 years old, is reminded not only of her far-flung travels but of human perseverance and the endless capacity to create.

He also earned enough money from ranching to underwrite the far-flung travels that continued until nearly the end of his life.