Word: odyssey
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...Space Odyssey...
...Space Odyssey today and tomorrow at midnight...
...they an exclusively American invention. The ground-breaking special-effects movie A Trip to the Moon was made in 1902 by a French filmmaker named Georges Melies. Techniques were improved over the years in such landmark films as King Kong (1933) and Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968). But most Hollywood studios had closed down their special-effects units by the mid-1970s, when Director Lucas set out to make a space adventure called Star Wars. To create the futuristic world he envisioned, Lucas set up his own shop in a Los Angeles warehouse, hired a crew...
...most recent odyssey took a week, during which he zigzagged 1,000 miles up 200 miles of the fabled Mississippi Delta. Yes, Faulkner came from here, but, more important to Malcolm White at the moment, so did B.B. King, Charlie Patton, Robert Johnson, Howlin' Wolf, Son House, Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker, Sonny Boy Williamson and a lot of old lesser lights who still sing the blues off the front porches of tumbledown shacks. "Check this out," White said at one point. "We're going to pick up a blind man that's going to show...
...intriguing ambience, the central story, recalled by Velasco through the medium of Garcia Marquez, needs no enhancing; the interest commandeered by catastrophes at sea is at least as old as the Odyssey. After eight months of repairs in Mobile, the destroyer Caldas prepares to sail home to Cartagena. The sailors bid farewell to onshore companions. "Our girlfriends wept," Velasco remembers, "and drank whiskey at a dollar and a half a bottle." This attention to specifics serves him well during what is to follow and gets him into trouble later on. For the Caldas does not run into a storm...