Word: odyssey
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...small town near Mt. Olympus, Wash. "Roughly the first half acts out the Iliad: Helen (Kay Ballard), the wife of a local dignitary, runs off with a drummer named Paris (Jonathan Lucas) and after a lot of commotion comes home to hubby. The second half acts out the Odyssey: Ulysses, a Spanish-American war veteran, imbibes city life at a neighboring seaport, goes to a water front dive, meets a Circe from the wrong side of the tracks, returns in the end to a Penelope busy with a patchwork quilt...
...around Rome, work was going forward on a production by a new screen writer: Homer. With assists from such upstart scenarists as Ben Hecht and Irwin Shaw, Homer's Odyssey was being filmed in plaster caves and palaces and on board a Greek galley (thoughtfully provided with an engine as well as 100 oarsmen). The stars: Kirk Douglas as a bearded Ulysses, and lush Silvana Mangano as both Circe and Penelope...
After a long, tinhorn odyssey in exile, Tom comes back to Paris and finds himself a wife. But boredom draws him into the arms of a mistress, who gives him excitement, trouble and baby Paul in short order, together with an urge to confess his shortcomings: "As for marks . . . zero, zero, zero-in conduct, in morality...
Zorba the Greek resists easy definition. Like the Odyssey and Don Quixote, it is nearly plotless but never pointless. Like the heroes of those fictional sagas, its hero, Alexis Zorba, casts a larger shadow on the world than the world does...
...making a convivial odyssey out of what, for other Westchester commuters, is a monotonous 45-minute train or car ride, Spyros (rhymes with "hero") was behaving in characteristic fashion.What made the incident exceptional was that the strong-willed Harris eventually reached his original destination...