Word: odyssey
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When I heard the news that four U.S. Marines were charged for their alleged role in the killing of 24 Iraqi civilians in the western town of Haditha in Nov. 2005, it marked the end of a personal odyssey...
...dropped entirely. But, Aronofsky persevered to create something perhaps more transcendent and timeless than one might expect of an independent director’s traumatic Hollywood debut. The film is set in three different time periods, spanning a millenium. Though the official website calls it “an odyssey about one man’s eternal struggle to save the woman he loves,” this is not exactly crystal clear throughout the movie. While Tomas (Hugh Jackman in 16th-century form) fights Mayan warriors in his quest to find the Fountain of Youth, Tommy (21st-century Jackman...
...film, ostensibly a serious documentary about life in the United States commissioned by the Kazakh government, is nothing of the sort. In a mocking odyssey from his provincial hometown to New York City, and then across America, Borat interviews Americans of all walks of life, with gut-splittingly spectacular results...
...Even in death, Ken Lay's legal odyssey may not be over. Although a Houston judge last week vacated the former Enron chairman's conviction, some legal observers predict the government will appeal the ruling - possibly all the way to the Supreme Court. At issue is - what else - lots and lots of money: there is a flurry of unsettled civil suits brought by investors, employees and victims against Lay and many others involved with Enron. Even if prosecutors have no illusions of actually having the ruling overturned, they may figure that additional legal fees associated with a drawn-out appeals...
...entering the “Sensorium”, participants are immediately transported into a futuristic world. French artist Matthieu Briand’s “UBIQ, a Mental Odyssey” transforms the gallery entrance into a spaceship based on the movie “2001: A Space Odyssey.” Visitors are then asked to wear a tan wireless viewing device that changes the view to what one of the three other participants is looking at, making the perception of the exhibition gallery into a shared reality. Moving along, the gallery walls are painted a dull shade...