Word: odyssey
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...been conducting negotiations. Totally exasperated by the terrorists' conduct, the Kuwait authorities thereupon surrounded the plane with 100 police and a dozen armored cars. The gunmen were finally cowed and meekly surrendered, giving up their four Saudi hostages unharmed and ending their bizarre, fruitless odyssey...
...Pavlovian working at PISCES (Psychological Intelligence Schemes for Expediting Surrender). Pointsman persuades the higher-ups to investigate the intricacies of Slothrop's sexuality, and the scene then shifts to testing grounds in southern France. Slothrop, after a time, manages to escape, and the remainder of the novel follows his odyssey from France through Switzerland into a by-now post-war Germany...
...Acali (Aztec for house in the water) sets out across the Atlantic this month, it will be captained by Maria Bjornstram, 30, a lithe Swedish blonde. Six other key-command posts will also be held by women; all of the secondary positions will be filled by men. This strange odyssey, scheduled to begin in Las Palmas in the Canary Islands and wind up in Yucatan, Mexico, has all of the earmarks of a frivolous publicity stunt. In fact, it is a serious experiment in role reversal and cultural conflict conceived by Santiago Genoves, a Mexican anthropologist who went along...
...from the parking lot of a casino in Stateline, Nev., raped her and tied her to a tree. Hours later, police caught up with Bunyard driving the victim's car, but he escaped. There ensued a two-day, 500-mile chase back and forth across California. During that odyssey, Bunyard raped one more woman, shot two others, kidnaped several families and escaped twice more from the police. He was finally captured in the foothills of Mariposa, but not before he had been shot in the arms, legs and stomach...
...image for this owl-eyed, leathery stump of wrinkled vitality was Proteus: the Odyssey's old man of the sea, whose power was to assume any form -beast, wave or tree-at will. He is the tutelary saint of virtuosos, and Picasso's virtuosity is the one fact of modern art that everybody knows something about. Stories about it begin in his early childhood. It is said that his father, a provincial art teacher in La Coruna, Spain, turned over his own brushes and paints to this alarming offspring, confessing that little Pablo had already surpassed...