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...Coplin (Ben Stiller) assumes that his birth parents are alive, well and no nutsier than his adoptive ones. The conventional wisdom of mental health dictates that he seek them out. The unconventional sensibility of writer-director David O. Russell dictates that nothing and no one Mel encounters on his odyssey shall turn out to be what they at first seem to be. Mel's social worker is terminally randy; his real mother and father are major drug traffickers; a pair of stern federal agents are revealed to be gently gay. Russell observes these and other folkways with an understated objectivity...
...Odyssey (Viking). In thrilling fashion, Robert Fagles' verse translation retells an epic tale 2,700 years old that some would argue is the mother of all novels. In recounting Odysseus' long journey home from the Trojan War, Fagles finds a contemporary English style that beckons to the ear as well as the eye. Rewardingly for an age so often rendered in rap and heavy metal, he makes Homer sing...
...RICHARD FISHER, SUSAN SOROS and LEON LEVY These three trustees gave a total of $42 million to New York's Bard College, a gift that allows the school to more than double its endowment. Fisher is chairman of the Morgan Stanley Group Inc. Levy is general partner of Odyssey Partners, an investment firm. Susan Soros, George's wife, is the director of Bard's Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, based in Manhattan...
ARTHUR C. CLARKE Ice on the moon? Author of 2001: A Space Odyssey thought it possible, back...
That's because the team will be spending this upcoming spring break in Japan. Harvard coach Tim Murphy announced yesterday that the Crimson will embark on a eight-day odyssey to the Land of the Rising Sun, which will culminate with a game against Kyoto University...