Word: odyssey
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...that don't threaten anybody--that's what one is supposed to say after talking about a song like Youth Decay, to take the edge off. But with Sleater-Kinney the edge is never off. It's what the band was created to pursue: "2001 will be a space odyssey for us, and we won't...be here," Brownstein said from the stage at Sleater-Kinney's most recent show, last November in San Francisco. In the midst of their brief hiatus, Brownstein, Tucker and Weiss remain off the radio but on the mind of the pop world, and plotting...
...Shining). But Kubrick sets him the sort of test and trap that real-boy Martin sets for David: a man must learn the limits of hope. And then, often, he dies. If there's a happy ending in a Kubrick film, it is in 2001: A Space Odyssey, in which an astronaut evolves into a Star Child. Man becomes not-man, better-than-man, by shrugging off that mean thing we flatter by calling humanity...
...Shining). But Kubrick sets him the sort of test and trap that real-boy Martin sets for David: a man must learn the limits of hope. And then, often, he dies. If there's a happy ending in a Kubrick film, it is in 2001: A Space Odyssey, in which an astronaut evolves into a Star Child. Man becomes not-man, better-than-man, by shrugging off that mean thing we flatter by calling humanity...
Three members of the Board of Overseers joined the six members of the Corporation for its nine-month-long odyssey: Richard E. Oldenburg ’54, Thomas E. Everhart ’53 and Overseer President Sharon E. Gagnon...
Thank the gods that copyright law was not discovered in the Iron Age. If it had been, and if Homer had been succeeded by some litigious heirs, the vast trove of Western literature derived or extrapolated from the Iliad and Odyssey--including Vergil's Aeneid, Dante's Inferno, Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde, Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida, Tennyson's Ulysses, Joyce's Ulysses--might not exist. And what damages would today's judges award Christopher Marlowe? He wrote a wildly popular poem called The Passionate Shepherd to His Love that was answered, in identical verse form, by Sir Walter...