Word: epical
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...however, the deep-revolving, witty Mankiewicz fails most where most he hoped to succeed. As drama and as cinema, Cleopatra is raddled with flaws. It lacks style both in image and in action. Never for an instant does it whirl along on wings of epic elan; generally it just bumps from scene to ponderous scene on the square wheels of exposition. Part of what is wrong went wrong in the cutting room, and for that Darryl Zanuck, boss of 20th Century-Fox, is possibly to blame. But much of what is wrong was wrong in the script, and for that...
...sense.JOHN H. FINLEY, JR., co-author of the Redbook and a member of the Doty Committee, has the longest record of service in General Education. As Chairman of the Faculty Gen Ed Committee, he is responsible for recruiting teachers for new courses. In addition, he teaches in Hum 2 ("Epic and Drama") and Hum 3 ("The Experience of the Drama...
...look more and more like a Hall of Mirrors. Her new vehicle, Contempt, is all about a film troupe shooting a movie in Italy-and there she was in Rome, inspiring those shutterbug paparazzi to ruses yet untried. One even hired a helicopter to map aerial views of her epic epidermis; another, on location, succeeded only in scaring Bardot and the boy friend, French Actor Sami Frey, out of a bush. Well, the paparazzi might enjoy her, but many Italians decided that Brigitte was not their piece of pasta. Said Rome's II Messaggero: "One of the least sexy...
ASTRONAUT talk is literally out of this world, and yet it has its own necessary coherence-as shown by the dramatic moments described in this week's cover story on the epic flight of Gordon Cooper. Nowadays everyone from garage mechanics to gospel singers have their own lingo, their own shorthand, and their own vivid phraseology. It might be possible to put out an issue of TIME in the 850 words of Basic English, but to do so would be to leave out an essential vitality in the way Americans do and say things...
...paid high compliments to those who backed him in the "epic-making fight" and said that "the true gainers" were the citizens of the true gainers" were the citizens of the state, who "now are much better informed on the issue...