Word: odyssey
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
FASHION by Mila Contini. 321 pages. Odyssey. $12.95. After studying haute couture from the Pharaohs forward, Signora Contini, an Italian journalist, concludes that women dress that way to entice men. Her verdict is scarcely as edifying as the 550 illustrations, which show that nearly every current style has ancient ancestry. Nefertiti's pleated tunic would draw envious stares at a Met opening night. Roman women carried collapsible umbrellas. In 18th century France coiffures soared higher than they do in today's discotheques...
...Augusta, where he was stricken during a golfing vacation Nov. 9, had taken 13 hours (at an average 45 m.p.h.) aboard an eight-car Atlantic Coast Line Railroad train with a hospital car equipped with electronic heart-monitoring equipment and staffed by 34 doctors, nurses and military policemen. The odyssey was paid for by the Defense Department because the General's trip was billed as a "military move...
...time, that we wished to plant it here, that it would blossom in its own way." The walls were breached when abstract expressionism took roots as the first U.S. art movement with international repercussions. "Since then," he muses, "I and my colleagues have been having our own odyssey, returning to our own Penelopes and Ithacas...
...taurine odyssey," proclaimed one Madrid newspaper this month, and to his flocks of worshipers, some of whom have paid $65 a seat to watch him, the 29-year-old El Cordobés is the most exciting bullfighter who ever strode the sands. Brushing his great shock of sandy hair out of his eyes, he dances in front of the bull's horns, pulls its tail, turns his back on it, and usually manages to smear its blood all over himself. If the bull won't charge him, he charges the bull; and to keep things exciting...
Kazantzakis himself would probably have refused to permit its publication. The manuscript was not ready; it is a first draft, rudely punctuated by death. It is all edges, untidy, angular, raw, the unpolished work of a perfectionist who invested 13 years on his Odyssey and put it through seven metamorphoses. It does not pretend to be an autobiography, mixes fact so thoroughly with myth that the only recognizable landmarks are the mountaintops of his life...