Word: odyssey
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...defy censorship wherever it occurs--notably, in this case, in the area of discourse on race, which is befogged with sanctimony and hypocrisy. As a scholar who regularly surveys archival material, I think that a century from now, cultural historians will find David Horowitz's spiritual and political odyssey paradigmatic for our time. CAMILLE PAGLIA PROFESSOR OF HUMANITIES University of the Arts Philadelphia
Bush's cross-country odyssey-- from Texas to the Ivy League and back--bears a certain resemblance to the migration of Theodore Roosevelt, Class of 1880, the first Harvard man to win the presidency in this century...
...gentle but continuous thrust. And for much of its mission the ship operated somewhat independently of its controllers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. It diagnosed its own systems and navigated with the aid of an electronic brain reminiscent of HAL, the willful computer in the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey. "What was science fiction a year ago is now science fact," exulted Marc Rayman, the chief mission engineer...
...whether it was a horror film like The Shining, an antiwar movie like Full Metal Jacket or a science-fiction feature. It is not surprising that he chose to make a psychological drama so he could reinvent that genre too. GENE D. PHILLIPS, S.J., AUTHOR Stanley Kubrick: A Film Odyssey Chicago...
...discussed the story, but Kubrick decided he wanted to do it after Eyes. Warner owns the rights to the script--just as MGM owns the rights to another Kubrick script, Napoleon--but there are no plans to make the film. Pity. For the man who made 2001: A Space Odyssey, AI would have been a fitting finale...