Word: odyssey
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...have a certain gestalt element and that lose something when separated from one another. To read Necessity, is to follow a coherent set of Sacks’ ruminations on a variety of subjects—to be a participant, if only fleetingly, in Sacks’ beautifully realized spiritual odyssey. By Stevens’ and, for that matter, just about any other reasonable metric, Necessity is indeed a damned serious affair—and damned good as well...
...mammoth hype, stoked by a quillion cover stories, including TIME's, before anyone had seen the completed work--and by the worldwide audience's communal memory of Star Wars (1977) and its sequels, The Empire Strikes Back (1980) and Return of the Jedi (1983). If the Odyssey had enjoyed--or suffered--as much anticipatory fluffing as Phantom Menace did, some ancient Greeks would surely have muttered, "Homer's lost it." And the poet would have wearily defended himself, as Lucas does today...
Grandwizzard Theodore entered the stage wearing an American flag bandana on his head, to the backdrop of the theme song from 2001: A Space Odyssey. The hype was well deserved: this is the man who, twenty years ago, invented the “scratch.” Grandwizzard Theodore delivered a classic, well-rounded set, working the crowd and getting the fans to sing him “Happy Birthday.” He also treated them to a brief hip hop history lesson emphasizing the importance of the DJ as the first element of hip hop, in conjunction with...
...language. Most scholars do not even bother to read Homer’s first work—10,000 tired lines of dactylic hexameter about a blind guy trying to write a timeless epic. Homer was able to learn from his mistake and went on to compose the legendary Odyssey and “SeinfSld.” But he was the exception. More typical is the story of Tokyo Williams. He disappeared after his first feature, Is it normal that I have three of these? One can only assume Williams was engulfed by the dog-eat-dog world...
...about Whitewater went by almost unnoticed. After eight years, 3,000 grand jury subpoenas and three special prosecutors, the independent counsel's investigation concluded last week that there was insufficient evidence to show that the Clintons committed any crimes. The five-volume, 2,200-page report details the investigative odyssey that started with a real estate deal in the Ozarks and led (with a boost from Monica Lewinsky) to Bill Clinton's impeachment. In the aftermath of this $70 million saga, some have fared better than others...