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...series of interviews with TIME Reporter Jay Cocks, Farrow, speaking in her sotto voce that raises "Good morning" to the level of a state secret, took some of those particles and put them together in vaguely chronological order. In nearly every respect, Farrow began as Hoffman's polar opposite. He was outside show business with his nose pressed up against the window. In Hollywood, Mia was Old Money: her father was Director John Farrow, her mother Actress Maureen O'Sullivan. The third of seven children, Mia was always the vulnerable one. "I got all the diseases," she recalls, "including polio...
ARCTIC ODYSSEY: THE DAVID HUMPHREYS POLAR EXPEDITION (NBC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). A close-up study of an Arctic expedition that changed the map of the world. The odyssey follows the project from its planning stage through its 109 days on the polar...
...feminine fondness, "He is closer to Homer." The remark is not quite as outrageous as it sounds. Kazantzakis' 33,333-line poem, also called The Odyssey, is a 20th century epic in which a contemporary Ulysses savors the world's sunny delights while heading inexorably for a polar night of the spirit. In the letters, however, Kazantzakis settles for a shrewder, certainly earthier judgment of himself. "I am not a Romantic in revolt," he wrote, "nor a mystic scorning life, nor an insolent belligerent against Substance. I do not feel possessed by any illusion. I enter into...
...rivets") in Ecclesiastes. So you say "they got no depth," right? You say there's no plot, right? You didn't get the Civil War bits mixed into the book. You liked the metaphors, but they were "out of place." Like the one--"My coffee was an albino polar bear--black and cold." Right...
...distant fixed stars and carefully measuring their apparent movement, scientists have determined that the North and South poles-the points at which the imaginary axis of rotation pierces the earth's surface-are continually on the move. Over the course of a year, they wander about the polar regions in roughly circular paths about 50 ft. in diameter...