Word: odyssey
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...this price-comparison site doesn't actually sell anything. But its store ratings can help you decide where to buy widely available items like this Riva Sports Odyssey sled. Or just go straight to amazon.com's new sporting-goods store...
Filmmakers Chelsea Spear and Guy Maddin will be premiering their latest works every Sunday in October including Spear’s new 16mm silent film The Hidden where she retells the Calypso/Ulysses story of The Odyssey from a woman’s point of view. 7 p.m. $7. Zeitgeist Gallery, 1353 Cambridge...
...evening’s grand finale, the theme from 2001: A Space Odyssey was the group’s response to a request from the week before. “Here’s the best we can do with a few people and a keyboard,” said Tobey. Their answer to the challenge included Furrow’s acting as the timpani, providing the necessary “bom, bom, bom, bom”s with his vocal chords. Crowd favorites at past recitals have included the theme from Love Story and Gloria Gaynor?...
Forget China's astronauts. The country's most famous intergalactic traveler lives in the last house on his lane at the edge of a Siberian forest. Meng Zhaoguo's odyssey began at the Red Flag logging camp in the Manchurian province of Heilongjiang, when he saw a metallic glint thrown off nearby Mount Phoenix. Thinking a helicopter had crashed, he set out to scavenge for scrap. The 36-year-old lumberjack stood gazing at the wreck from across a valley when "Foom! Something hit me square in the forehead and knocked...
Considering the saga's seminal literary importance, not to mention all the stuff that blows up, it's surprising that so few filmmakers have itched to put it on the screen. And when they do, it is usually The Odyssey they turn to. That picaresque travelogue through the wilder outposts of ancient Greece has inspired ordinary films (Kirk Douglas in a mid-'50s Ulysses), funny ones (the Coen brothers' O Brother, Where Art Thou?) and one masterpiece (Theo Angelopoulos' Ulysses' Gaze, a mesmeric synopsis of a century of Greek history). But where's The Iliad? Hard to find, except...