Word: odyssey
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Loosely based on Homer's Odyssey, with Yul Brynner playing the Greek wanderer, the show had endless problems during a yearlong eleven-city tour, including a demand by Writer Erich (Love Story) Segal that his name be removed from the credits. He must have known something...
...direct flights overseas. A scheduled flight from Omaha to Trinidad, for example, can take 16 hours, with stopovers in Chicago, Miami, San Juan, Kingston and often Barbados. An O.T.C. trip cuts it to four hours-in addition to the savings in cash. Milwaukee's Odyssey Travel is chartering Pan Am flights nonstop to the Caribbean from Des Moines, Indianapolis, St. Louis and other Midwestern cities. Marvin Smith, vice president of Boston's American International Travel Service Inc., estimates that more than 30% of O.T.C. tourists have rarely strayed more than 500 miles from home and have never taken...
...film 2001: A Space Odyssey, scientists with business on the moon board a Pan American space liner and make the flight as casually as today's businessmen take the Eastern Airlines shuttle between Washington and New York. U.S. airlines may never offer trips into space, but NASA is well on the way toward achieving regular space flight, pointing toward the day when craft will shuttle men and materials between earth and orbiting space stations. The agency is assembling the first reusable spaceship, and has begun to train astronauts to fly the new space shuttle, which will be ready...
SECOND PARADOX: As he did in 2001: A Space Odyssey, Kubrick relies not on words -he is as sparing of them as Thackeray is profligate-but images to tell his story. Yet Barry Lyndon lacks the experimental, hallucinatory visual quality that made 2001 a cultural touchstone of the tripped-out '60s. Kubrick has shot and edited Barry Lyndon with the classic economy and elegance associated with the best works of the silent cinema. The frantic trompe 1'oeil manner -all quick cuts and crazy angles-recently favored by ambitious film makers (and audiences) has been rigorously rejected...
...this comparatively young discipline. So transforming science fiction from the medium of print into that of film presents problems: How do you capture wild visions and put them on the screen? There have been a few successful creative unions: Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke's 2001: A Space Odyssey, Kubrick again in Anthony Burgess' A Clockwork Orange, and Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451, but the list remains short...