Word: epical
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With much thumping of chests and flaunting of superlatives, Warner Brothers carry on their heroic tradition of celluloid crusades. Their latest contribution to popular enlightenment is an epic on venereal disease, "Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet." Apparently the moguls of moviedom have resolved that if club-women can take Wassermann tests, the movies can proclaim the existence of such a thing as syphilis...
Book One is a sort of muted epic on those tricks of sharp rural trading which become the legendary material of country store gossips. It tells how cold Flem Snopes, a tenant farmer's son, gains complete power over Will Varner, who virtually owns the town. Other Snopeses turn up on the horizon...
...runs for only 30 minutes. Dramatic without ever being theatrical, it makes even such top-notch Hollywood medical pictures as Men in White and Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet seem unreal and stagy. In its realism it sustains the suspense luckily caught a few minutes each year on epic newsreels...
Captain John Townley's comments were laconic and anything but epic. "Well, I mean to say, I better not discuss that. . . . You mustn't ask too many questions. . . . Then a number of things happened, I can't say when. . . . Don't ask where...
...midst of this stertorous and priapic life, in a house so crowded that travelers mistook it for an inn, Aretino cranked out an enormous mass of writing -plays, letters, parody horoscopes, obscene dialogues, an uninspired epic, religious tracts, florid and fulsome eulogies...