Word: odyssey
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...from the parking lot of a casino in Stateline, Nev., raped her and tied her to a tree. Hours later, police caught up with Bunyard driving the victim's car, but he escaped. There ensued a two-day, 500-mile chase back and forth across California. During that odyssey, Bunyard raped one more woman, shot two others, kidnaped several families and escaped twice more from the police. He was finally captured in the foothills of Mariposa, but not before he had been shot in the arms, legs and stomach...
...view of the earth. To sustain its crews, it carries 720 gal. of drinking water, more than 2,000 Ibs. of food and enough scientific and medical gear for months of experimentation. Both inside and out, it would make a splendid set for a movie like 2001: A Space Odyssey or the TV series Star Trek. But it is a real spacecraft called Skylab, which will soon become the U.S.'s first manned orbital space station...
...image for this owl-eyed, leathery stump of wrinkled vitality was Proteus: the Odyssey's old man of the sea, whose power was to assume any form -beast, wave or tree-at will. He is the tutelary saint of virtuosos, and Picasso's virtuosity is the one fact of modern art that everybody knows something about. Stories about it begin in his early childhood. It is said that his father, a provincial art teacher in La Coruna, Spain, turned over his own brushes and paints to this alarming offspring, confessing that little Pablo had already surpassed...
Piano Concerto No. 2 in F Minor (Charles Rosen soloist, John Pritchard conducting the New Philharmonia Orchestra, Odyssey; $2.98). Each time a new Rosen record appears, one wonders why more is not heard from him. His attack is confident, his approach intelligent, and he achieves a tonal purity that is best described as supremely musical...
...Odyssey. Opens tonight at 8 at the Publick Theater, 1175 Soldiers Field Road. "As always, its (sic) FREE," remarks the Real Paper's listing. What else it may be is anybody's guess...