Word: odyssey
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...into some of his most famous hits: Superwoman, Superstition, Keep on Running. It was fine to hear a voice so long addicted to sweet soul now revel in husky, emotive blues growls. The pulsating climax came with an almost symphonic version of his Living for the City, a black odyssey that begins in Mississippi and ends with the arrest of an innocent youth in New York...
...shape of the book is a personal odyssey. It is launched when Thompson, now 35, quits his job at York University in Toronto and heads out to visit the "prophets" who arise in times of stress "to reformulate the traditional path through the mazeway of nature, self and society." As a historian, he knows that the implications of great societal upheavals like the Industrial Revolution were first grasped by "crazies" like William Blake, whose ideas gradually percolated down to artists, savants and finally pedants...
...Odyssey, a similar game manufactured by the Magnavox Co., is intended for use on home television sets. It sells...
They speak dialects that fall into scatty rhyme, slick and ingenious, while Cole ridge-Taylor Perkinson's music runs from gospel to voodoo to jazz. The evening is a fairly dense and ambitious odyssey that flirts with incoherence and goes on a bit too long. But the trip is worth it. In a season of obsessive nostalgia, MacDaddy at least has blood in it, and not embalming fluid...
...little more than three hours later, the "mad odyssey," as one Arab commentator described it, ended in the Persian Gulf emirate of Kuwait. Again airport authorities refused landing permission. Under threat from the terrorists, Captain Joe Kroese brought in his plane anyway on a secondary runway. After an hour of haggling between the terrorists and Kuwaiti officials over conditions of surrender, the twelve hostages and crewmen quietly walked down the ramp, followed a short time later by their captors. "We are Palestinian Arabs, not criminals," declared one of them. "The criminals are the ones who bomb Palestinian refugee camps...