Word: odyssey
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...dark upstairs at Satch's, and the audience of 20 or so is looking around, trying to figure out what's going on up on the small stage. Gradually, the lights come up and the booming theme of 2001: A Space Odyssey is heard...
...story of Menenhetet, a peasant who rises to the post of First Charioteer in the reign of Ramses II and succeeds in getting reincarnated three or four times--ancient Egypt is a land of many weird rites and customs, filled with magic, telepathy and violence. Menenhetet relates his odyssey from a Nile village to the Pharaoh's chariot in the glorious battle against the Hittites at Kadesh to the beds of the royal harem and the Queen from beyond the grave. He also prefaces the tale with a recasting of a number of stories from Egyptian mythology, a section which...
...usually stands for Trans World Airlines. Last week it could have meant Tussle, Wrestle & Armtwist. At the annual meeting of TWA's parent, Trans World Corp., in Kansas City, a group of investors calling themselves Odyssey Partners attempted to break up the firm by splitting off the corporation's red-ink airline business from its four other subsidiaries, all moneymakers. With only 1% of Trans World's stock, they nonetheless persuaded shareholders who control perhaps a fourth of the company to vote their way. That fell short of the required 51% majority, but Trans World Chairman...
...Trans World's nonflying parts. Levy and the other dissidents argued that all the parts of Trans World were worth as much as $70 a share, more than twice its current $31 stock price. "There is no synergism in Trans World," claimed Lester Pollack, a general partner in Odyssey. Trans World's defense to its shareholders, trumpeted in full-page newspaper ads, was that its diversification was a strength in bad economic times...
...another level, Moscow Circles is a literary odyssey. Erofeev and his fellow-passengers engage in some hilarious literary polemics tracing alcoholism in German and Russian authors (Chekhov's last words: "Let's have some champagne!"), even as his own journey takes on a mythico-literary cast. Erofeev is Sheherezade, avoiding one thousand and one train fares by telling obscene stories to chief Ticket Inspector Semyonych. He is Oedipus, parrying the ribald riddles of a drunken Sphinx. He is Dante descending through the Moscow circles of Hell, his Virgil a bottle of Stolychnaya. And in the tragic denouement, Erofeev becomes Christ...