Word: odyssey
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After an eight-year legal odyssey that has witnessed motions and counter-motions, destroyed documents and heated pre-trial debate, the case of Barbara Bund Jackson '66 vs. Harvard University reached the courtroom this spring...
...Cannes '88 presented a picture of world cinema as seen through a cynic's squint, three of the most acclaimed films gave a child's-eye view of the struggle for survival and identity. Mira Nair's Salaam Bombay! traces the odyssey of a ten-year-old boy abandoned in India's fetid slums. This artful heartbreaker (which won the Camera d'Or for best first feature) is made with passion and tact -- an expose that also, eloquently, reveals...
...without the bad and the ugly, the picture is distorted and the political odyssey incomplete. If he had not been a hardball player, he would never have entered the presidential primary after Eugene McCarthy had cleared the way. Without his ruthless, hard-nosed side, Bobby might not have been able to put together the coalition he did. Conservative working-class whites may have been willing to help the needy, but fearful of being taken advantage of, they wanted a tough guy in charge. The impetuous young Bobby helped make the grownup Bobby more compassionate...
Sufferers routinely endure a medical odyssey before their problem is correctly traced to the troublesome joint. Pam Baird, 46, of Havertown, Pa., had unnecessary root-canal work and was treated for bronchitis and an eye infection. "When I finally learned what I had, it was such a relief that I just sat there and cried," she says. Despite such sagas, experts are concerned that TMJ is being overdiagnosed. "Any vague symptom above the chest has become TMJ," charges Dentist Charles Greene, co-director of Northwestern University's TMJ clinic, one of the dozens devoted to facial and jaw pain that...
...Odyssey Project, now in its third year, complements the company's Time to Read program, through which TIME employees have tutored hundreds across the country. "Odyssey leaves room for a lot of creativity," says Sean Riley, 18, who plans to profile Redskins Quarterback Doug Williams. "What you write about is up to you, and you have to learn to be independent." More students may soon learn firsthand what Riley means: Washington school officials are considering expanding the Odyssey Project concept so that special training in writing skills will be available to all of the district's students...