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...Angeles. What she is slow to realize is that it is right there beside her, in the person of a canvas-backed prizefighter (Tommy Lee Jones). He causes some trouble, but turns out to be useful and good-natured when new difficulties arise in the course of their odyssey together. And arise they do, with metronomic and lugubrious regularity, once a reel. If the pair get a few bucks ahead, someone is sure to rip them off, and probably do them some physical harm...
...biblical account of the Exodus does not answer a tantalizing question. Why did Moses turn right when he reached the Sinai, taking his flock on an arid, roundabout 40-year odyssey, instead of heading directly along the Mediterranean coast to the promised land...
...quickly that credentials from Greece meant nothing. She pushed endlessly for auditions. Finally, she got one with Edward Johnson, the Met's general manager, who offered her a contract for two starring roles. Inexplicably, she turned him down. Her refusal started the soprano off on a long, wearing odyssey. On the way she studied the subtleties of her art with great teachers like Conductor Tullio Serafin and learned stagecraft from Luchino Visconti, whom she deeply loved...
...Odyssey of Out of Town News...
Burgess's pert narrator, 81-year-old Kenneth Toomey, is a bestselling novelist and celebrated homosexual, who relates the semen-drenched odyssey of his life--an odyssey which spans more than 60 years, four continents, two World Wars, numerous gay relationships, friendships with the likes of James Joyce and John Maynard Keynes, and the writing of countless novels, plays and screenplays. He had a Pope for an intimate friend and brother-in-law, a beautiful younger sister turned into a cyclops and a lesbian by a stint in a Manhattan art studio, and a grand-niece...