Word: odyssey
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...both the most ambitious war movie since Apocalypse Now and, potentially, the strangest. "It'll be Malick's Iliad," says Geisler with only slightly undue portentousness. A cast member says that the director, maybe sensing a roll, is already talking about an even more ambitious follow-up. Malick's Odyssey...
Dining Services maintains a fleet of Crimson William Decherd UNDERGROUND ODYSSEY: A worker attends a steam plant near Peabody three 10-foot carts-"like golf carts, only a little more heavy-duty," says John J. Mingle, food service supervisor at the College dining halls-and upwards of 10 warming and cooling trailers, all run off battery power...
...dealmaking since then, Weill has not only clawed his way back but last week was being hailed as the new king of Wall Street after Travelers sealed a $9 billion deal to acquire Salomon Bros., one of the world's largest bond-trading houses. Says Weill, 64, of his odyssey: "I never thought it could be anything approaching this...
...That odyssey began in San Diego, where Cunanan spent most of his life. Cunanan had told friends that David Madson, 33, a Minneapolis, Minn., architect, was "the love of my life." But Cunanan may have thought Madson, who had grown suspicious of him, was involved with one of Cunanan's best friends, Jeffrey Trail, 28, a former San Diego Navy officer. In November Trail moved to Minnesota to take a job with a propane-gas company...
Powered by baby food and bananas, 22-year-old SUSIE MARONEY of Australia became the first woman to swim from Cuba to Florida in her second attempt at that odyssey last week. Inside a sharkproof cage attached to the good ship Reel Lady, Maroney crawled 112 miles in 24 1/2 hours. In the wee small hours she hallucinated, seeing monkeys in the water. And to distract herself from the hammerhead sharks cruising by, she mentally replayed Seinfeld episodes. Upon arrival in Florida, her tongue swollen from salt water, her skin tattooed with jellyfish stings, she said, "So many times...