Word: odyssey
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...Bush. With the arched cushions of his pectorals thrusting out like an advance party, Schwarzenegger treated it all as his due. We're talking after all about a man who once routinely walked out on stages in a bathing suit to the opening theme from 2001: A Space Odyssey...
...unconscious in the stifling heat while horses munched hay a few feet away. The cops were not completely shocked: Avianeda and Andrade are reputed people smugglers. Police say the two recently gained trafficking control over a large swath of Mexico's southern isthmus--an unavoidable corridor in the perilous odyssey from Central America to the U.S. that hundreds of thousands of desperately poor migrants make each year...
That's about all there is to the plot of Marooned in Iraq. But this half-mad movie by Iranian director Bahman Ghobadi (A Time for Drunken Horses), entirely played by Kurdish actors unknown to most of us, is a marvel--an odyssey through chaos and hysteria that finally ends in redemptive, if provisional, peace...
...exploring the ravaged glory of this country. And so we struck out for Spean Praptos?Cambodia's most venerable bridge?and the overgrown temples of Beng Mealea. This is a round-trip of less than 140 kilometers, but in Cambodia it's a bone-numbing, dawn-to-dusk odyssey...
...Coast, Cartier-Bresson had a fateful chance encounter when he came across a photograph by the Hungarian Martin Munkacsi: three boys leaping in the waves of Lake Tanganyika. "I suddenly understood that a photograph could fix eternity in an instant," he explained. He bought his first Leica and the odyssey began. At first he worked on his own, prowling the streets of Paris, Italy, Spain and Mexico, "ready to pounce." An army photographer in World War II, he was captured in the Vosges Mountains in 1940, but managed to escape in 1943. In 1944, he was back in Paris...