Word: epical
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Epic Fight...
...victory procession, he came on at the head of 200 soldiers and 100 Ethiopian slaves. In an ardent effort to recreate the splendor of Aïda's 1871 debut in Cairo (in celebration of the recent opening of the Suez Canal), Zeffirelli chose Second Empire France and Epic Hollywood as his cultural guides. "I have tried to give the public the best that Cecil B. De Mille could offer," he said, "but in good taste...
...bows and arrows, white men in buckskins make the air pop with gunfire, the sound track throbs with folk-heroic music. Then, to a skirl of bagpipes, the Redcoats come over the ridge. For a moment it looks like the realization of a Hollywood nightmare: the day the Western epic and the historical spectacular arrive for shooting on the same location. Maistiens-it is only the American Revolution as conceived by the French producers of this Super Technirama, 70-mm.-Technicolor, Copernic Cosmos (out of Maco) tableau vivant...
...Faculty was certain that their defense of the President and his rotten butter was quite well taken but the undergraduate body was even more self-righteous. The rebellion, once over, was eulogized by one of the insurrectionaries in a Biblical epic called the Book of Harvard...
...winter, racing fans looked forward to the next meeting of Candy Spots and Never Bend in the Kentucky Derby. The race was billed as a two-horse affair, a battle between East and West, reminiscent of the epic Nashua-Swaps duels...