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...incarnate, but to a materialized, breathing, caressing version of his former wife, who had committed suicide on Earth. He becomes sucked in by his desire to love this bionic apparition, neutrinos or no. Stanley Kubrick may have meant to convey this same space-subconscious analogy in 2001: A Space Odyssey, but he abstracted too much, and became boring. Tarkovsky doesn't; he clutches us in the gut with emotional ambiguities, and he is not using scare tactics. Hari, the returned wife, kills herself again, but Kelvin knows she is immortal and waits for her to come back to life. Wild...
...honorable mention went to Laurie I. Braunstein for her poem, "After Reading the Odyssey...
...Derring-Do. Not every studio has joined the race to Entebbe. Says United Artists Production Boss Michael Medavoy: "I have serious reservations about capitalizing on a news story like that. It cheapens everybody." That criticism notwithstanding, at least one project offers hope of exceptional accuracy: Merv Griffin Productions' Odyssey of 139, which will focus on the ordeal of the hostages rather than the derring-do of the rescue. Reason: Griffin President Murray Schwartz was aboard the hijacked plane and was among the group of hostages released prior to the Israeli rescue mission...
...jetliner. "Sit down!" she shouted. Holding two hand grenades aloft, the girl then herded the startled passengers into the tourist section of the plane, where three male comrades-a German and two Arabs-were already in control. With that, 242 passengers and twelve crew members began a terrifying odyssey that first took them to Libya for refueling (where a pregnant passenger was allowed to go free) and then to Uganda's Entebbe Airport. As the horror of what was happening sank in, a French oil executive moaned: "My God! This is my second skyjacking. I can't survive...
...trio's odyssey might begin in Bar Harbor, Me., at the Acadia National Park, a 41,634-acre delight of mountains, sea-coast and forests. It is ideal for camping and hiking, but fellow campers warn the new arrivals that the national parks are not as pleasant as they used to be: once, one could leave his belongings untended at a campsite; now they must be locked away. "Cutpurses," observes Dickens knowingly...