Word: epic
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...first effort at writing verse, but it was the first time I tried to write a long, narrative, epic poem. I somehow decided that doing a book of rhyming couplets would sort of drone on after a while, so I decided to interrupt it with what we're calling "embedded poems." Some of those - maybe about half - are poems that appeared in The Nation. The whole narrative poem is published for the first time in the book...
...none of their primitive motives and bustling activities has ever been seen before on any screen. Then, too, they seem to have the idea that they're not just making a kind of Down Under western. They're under the illusion that they're making a national epic, a film that symbolically addressed most of the foundational issues with which the Aussies have grappled since the first convict ships dumped their cargoes on the "fatal shore" in the 19th century. This is particularly true of those portions of the story that deal with white Australians' prejudices against the Aboriginals...
...morally instructive on us, puts us back in touch with our giddy side, with that old-fashioned, low-minded desire just to know what happens next. There is some elemental human desire - lately largely denied at the cinema - to see pretty people in handsome landscapes assuaging our need for epic romance. On that level, Australia delivers with real panache...
...am”—complete with orchestral love songs and emotional, echoic ballads—can only be described as continuous. It’s hard to tell where one song ends and another begins. The lack of melodic variation gives rise to one long, epic complaint on the shortcomings of men. The disc is enticing in that the first three songs—“If I Were a Boy,”” Halo,” and “Disappear”—show the Beyonc?...
...Yale beats 8-0 Harvard for national championship. 1930: W. Barry Wood ’32 throws a pair of touchdowns and plays the entire last minute for a 13-0 win. 1954: Harvard wins its 500th game by crushing Yale at the Stadium, 13-9. 1957: Most epic Harvard slaughtering by Yale ever: 54-0. 1961: Harvard 27-0 win allows it to earn its first share of the Ivy football title. 1968: In “the best game,” Harvard (equipped with Tommy Lee Jones ’69) pulls through in the last...