Word: odyssey
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...arrests of Mitchell and Barzee concluded the strange nine-month odyssey that began last summer amid a string of high-profile kidnappings that had set an already jittery nation on hyperalert. Smart's abduction was every parent's worst nightmare: she was plucked from the safety of her own bed, with a sister watching and her parents sleeping nearby. Though the 24-hour media vigil had long ago moved on, the family never gave up hope; Elizabeth's uncle Tom was even quoted in the paper on the very morning of her rescue, castigating police for slowing down the search...
Thus begins the odyssey to find a dining hall that will feed...
...really just tried to tell a story,” says Robert Woodruff, director of Highway Ulysses, the new play which premiered last weekend at Cambridge’s American Repertory Theatre (ART). Indeed, the musical tells one of the greatest stories literature has to offer, that of The Odyssey...
...Yeah, we just kind of slammed The Odyssey in there,” he says with slight laugh, “but it’s really about the work of a great American artist and giving him a canvas of this size to work...
Each scene’s connections with The Odyssey is also underscored by a computer projection of the corresponding book title. The projections emanate eerily from the captive Son, played with an appropriately contrasting combination of teenage awkwardness and godly grace and wisdom by Dana Marks...