Word: odyssey
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Fourteen productive years and thousands of dusty miles later, My Secret History does that and more. Theroux, 48, reinvents not only his great train odyssey but other chapters of his exotic autobiography as well. The result is the most consistently entertaining of the author's more than two dozen books, a serial portrait of the artist as a young stud that will undoubtedly cause the usual confusion about what is fact and what is fiction...
...weekend odyssey pulled the Crimson (14-17 overall, 7-9 EIBL) out of last place in the league, and knocked both the Big Red (15-18, 6-10) and the Tigers (25-14-1, 10-8) down in the standings...
...teaching aids for the classroom. Outside school, magazines such as the venerable Boys' Life, Highlights for Children and the new U.S. Kids offer a combination of fiction and nonfiction stories, puzzles and contests. Then there is the fast-growing crop of special-interest magazines, including Cobblestone (history), Faces (anthropology), Odyssey (space exploration and astronomy), Cricket (fiction), Merlyn's Pen (student fiction) and television companions like Alf and Sesame Street. A subset includes junior versions of adult magazines such as Penny Power (published by Consumer Reports), National Geographic World and the newest entry, SPORTS ILLUSTRATED FOR KIDS...
...father,/ Ain't got no culture." The generation that let down its Hair in 1968 and sang those lyrics gave birth to forms that still shape popular music, literature, film and television. Laugh-In begot Saturday Night Live. Julia paved the way for The Cosby Show. 2001: A Space Odyssey has metamorphosed into Star Wars. Eric Clapton and Jimi Hendrix spawned Heavy Metal. Big Bird wanders down Sesame Street, still a hippie innocent, a naive, ever hopeful thing with feathers...
...making Lonesome Dove, de Passe rejected the TV industry wisdom that westerns no longer draw a big audience. All three major networks initially turned down the rights to produce McMurtry's 843-page prairie odyssey. Even the author warned de Passe, "You probably wouldn't like it." Intrigued, de Passe eventually snared movie and TV rights...