Word: odyssey
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...years ago, America was not ready,” Ackerman said. “It’s been something of an odyssey...
Bronson’s odyssey as a visual artist is central to the exhibit. Along with Felix Partz and Jorge Zontal, Bronson founded the Canadian conceptual art group General Idea. The collaborative was more than just the exploration of media bombardment in the modern age, an omnipresent theme in their work. Rather, all three members doffed their former identities and names to form an all-encompassing way of art and life that lasted from 1969 until 1994. In 1994, General Idea dissolved when Zontal and Partz, so integral to Bronson’s artistic and personal life, died from AIDS...
...have TFed many Harvard courses and spent four years as a resident tutor. I’ve been through the college “hook-up” scene, the post-college dating scene, the long-distance relationship odyssey and even successful marriage. I’m likely to have a decent solution, or at least a smart-ass response, for many of your problems...
Thus begins a hilarity-filled odyssey that takes the audience on a ride from Orange County to Stanford University, with a few sentimental pitstops along the way. Along with an incredibly funny screenplay by Mike White (the cutting-edge scribe of the critically-acclaimed independent film Chuck & Buck), the film boasts an all-star cast, filled to the brim with comedic heavyweights. Catherine O’Hara (Home Alone) plays Shaun’s emotional unstable and marginally alcoholic mother; John Lithgow (Terms of Endearment) plays Shaun’s disapproving and unaffectionate father; and Lily Tomlin (Tea With Mussolini...
...Within a day we were back in Kandahar, via a short visit to a deserted, bombed and raided Al-Qaeda camp (but that's another story). In the course of our odyssey to Baghran we gained and lost a small private army; it began with four gunmen and swelled at times to a dozen or maybe more. Our vehicles took heavy punishment: three tires were punctured, the van had to be left and picked up later, a taxi had to be hired in Baghran, a 4x4's belt spring was broken, some electricals failed, two cars collided...