Word: epical
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...afraid to say boo." Down Salinas way, in the bean-and-lettuce country celebrated by Steinbeck, leather-handed migrant workers?some of them Latin-Americans, whose 2,000,000 poor rank second only to Negroes in the U.S.?work the fields and wreck the saloons in an epic cycle of productivity and degradation. Many men stagger into the fields to chop weeds for $1.40 an hour until they have enough for another binge. Others grind out an endless season of stoop labor to keep their families barely abreast of the poverty line...
...WHITE, by Sylvia Townsend Warner. A compassionate biography of the tormented English author who re-created the legend of King Arthur in a new form part magic and farce, part fairy tale and epic...
...SPACE ODYSSEY. Director Stanley Kubrick's epic of the space age is at once a stunning visual experience and a demanding philosophical exercise that sets out to depict nothing less than the essence of our universe...
...writer, White was unique. He took the schoolboy classic which is also the common memory of the race-the legend of Arthur, Merlyn and the rest-and re-created it all in a new form, part magic and farce, part fairy tale and epic. As a person, White was a self-tormented man who drove himself to high and lonely accomplishment; he was also a fairly ordinary product of post-Victorian England. He was born in India in 1906. His mother, who married reluctantly and late, regarded sex and White's father with total revulsion and her only child...
...balanced static composition, varied only at moments of true dramatic necessity. The effect seems to me to be entirely intentional, and it works splendidly in the frequent crowd scenes, when the groupings suggest at once the linear composition of classical art, and the luxury of a Cinemascope biblical epic. This is due in good part to Olga Liepmann's costumes, which make up in variety and color whatever they may lack in real period style. But in the intimate scenes, the static principle is a good deal less successful. The compositions satisfy when first revealed, but one soon begins...