Word: epical
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Explosive Piano of Herman Foster (Epic). Pianist Foster chops out brutish chords with a macelike hand in Yesterdays, contributes a sweet and swinging solo to Like Someone in Love, and generally comports himself like a man with something...
Japan's businessmen are expanding their plants at an unprecedented rate, largely with imported heavy machinery. And as the benefits of the resulting superboom trickle down, Japan's consumers have gone on an epic spending spree, snapping up in ever increasing quantities everything from electric rice cookers to autos. In response, many Japanese manufacturers who used to produce for export are now producing for the domestic market...
This was the age in which Metternich said that "the levels of man commenced with baron." Ippolita marries one-Baron Konrad von Grueber-and it becomes the ruefully comic epic of Ippolita's skinflint life to retrieve her one uncharacteristic act of giving herself to him. The baron is a madcap giant of a hussar, a Homeric drinker and eater, an impenitent gambler, an indefatigable skirt chaser. Ippolita, to whom purse strings are the only heart strings, chokes as her beans-and-mush menus give way to roast pigs, shank sausage and plump capons. She likes to dress like...
...saved from being only one more cast-of-dozens slum epic by the author's deep love for all his characters, good and less good, and by the intensity of his inquiry. Some writers reveal things about their characters; Fuchs asks. It is his curiosity that takes the reader, not his revelations. One shares Philip's question about the butcher upstairs who makes a gas mask out of a basketball bladder and asphyxiates himself: "O Meyer Sussman! As a favor to a young writer, will you ask God for me what made you squeeze the basketball bladder over...
Hindemith: String Quartet No. 3 (The Kroll Quartet; Epic). A fine recording of a 1922 work that is admirably forthright in feeling, rhythmically sophisticated, studded with complexities and equipped with an impressively melancholy slow movement...