Word: odyssey
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...record of the journey is Glen and Randa, a primitive, desperate odyssey by the last bewildered survivors of an atomic holocaust, stumbling through the wreckage of a vanished civilization. Neither moralizing sci-fi nor melodrama, despite its fanciful premise, the film is rather like a cinéma vérité doomsday documentary-a parable in newsreel form...
...perception, its importance determined by your awareness. What you don't see, cannot know, is shadow, darkness around and in corners, beyond horizons. We deal with unknowns in and with the terms of what we understand. Beyond his genius in removing man from sight of known shores, Homer's odyssey still had to present mysteries with realities people could understand. Whirlpools were given names to relate in sea-tales-lightning didn't just strike, he named the hand of its origin. Nothing can remain unknown entirely, magical creatures are composites of the world we know, and we turn men into...
...preferences-so too his shapes are not wholly abstract. A disk may allude to the sun, to a breast or to an altar; a triangle to a pyramid or a bird's spread wings. With its vertical masts and calm progression of red, sail-like forms, Odyssey, one of the monumental sculptures at Hammarskjold Plaza, suggests an archaic flotilla dipping through the Aegean. Sometimes a sculpture will work not as an object but as a kinetic metaphor of force. Ascent includes a blade of red steel that surges from the ground and appears to crush a cylinder until...
Described as "innerspace fiction," the book treats the stay in a psychiatric hospital of Charles Watkins, 50, a classics professor, who was picked up rambling and confused near London's Waterloo Bridge at midnight, under the impression that he had survived an odyssey as bizarre as anything out of Homer. Watkins fights to remember his visions, which involve legendary yellow beasts as well as the great white bird, and a bloody, obscene war between a species of monkeys and "rat-dogs." Doctors X and Y try to make him remember his wife, his family, his name and occupation-what...
...when "one followed the line of one's sexual impulse without a backward look at what was moral, responsible or remotely desirable for society." Millett's "critical misdemeanor" with Lawrence is treating him out of sequence "to conceal the pilgrimage, hide the life, cover over that emotional odyssey which took him from adoration of the woman to outright lust for her murder, then took him back to worship her beauty, even her procreative beauty...