Word: odyssey
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...gallop. He doesn't give the music the time it needs to fester, to spread its fumes; more importantly, the singers couldn't keep up with the pace. (If you want to hear Weill's music in a really atmospheric performance, pick up the old Berlin recording on Odyssey Records. It's in German, but it's got Lotte Lenya and it's cheap...
...grandmother leads Erendira on a bizarre odyssey across the desert to search for customers for Erendira's favors. As revenue begins to roll in, the grandmother restores the gaudy splendor of her old estate although her new empire is more of a traveling carnival which slowly expands to include Indian bearers, a photographer on a bicycle, a brass band, and numerous ox-carts packed with trinkets. At first the grandmother reminds Erendira cheerily that she only has eight years, seven months and eleven days more of slavery, if receipts continue at the same rate...
...this book had any other title--say, The Personal Views of a 23-Year-Old Student, or John LeBoutillier's America, or even the subtitle: The Odyssey of a Born-Again American--a private printing might have run off 20 copies: 10 for the author's parents and 10 for aunts and uncles in Orange County, California, or some other reactionary region. As it is, the book is prominently displayed in reputable bookstores and reviewed in reputable publications. That means others--including other reviewers--are forced to take account of they could otherwise throw in the circular file with...
...Zach's odyssey continues to the horribly dilapidated townships (precursors of Soweto), where he finds friendship but still no steady job. He grows increasingly frustrated; finally, joined by his wife and children, the debilitating pressures of apartheid begin to tell on him. The ending of the film is, of course depressing...
...Connor's dirge at the death of traditional Irish-American society, and Frank Skeffington, the larger-than-life caricature, served quite neatly as a symbol of a vanishing way of life. The Wanting of Levine, by contrast, takes on no such broad sociological theme. A.L. Levine's odyssey is an intensely personal one, the maturing of a fascinating character who happens to be Jewish and happens to be a politician and happens to be enormously successful. Less ambitious in scope than O'Connor's book, it is no less fascinating...