Word: epical
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Emulsified (Rex Garvin and the Mighty Gravers; Epic). A chemistry lesson howled with lunatic intensity. The Gravers get that old emulsified feeling every time "you squeeze me and you hold me tight...
Breathless has no plot in the usual sense of the word. The script of the picture was a three-page memo. Situation, dialogue, locations were improvised every morning and shot off the cuff. By these casual means Godard has achieved a sort of ad-lib epic, a Joycean harangue of images in which the only real continuity is the irrational coherence of nightmare. Yet, like many nightmares, Breathless has its crazy humor, its anarchic beauty, its night-mind meaning...
There is reason enough for this: Faust, in one way when done in German, in another in English, poses a language barrier not easily breached.* For non-Germans, again, even the playable but overlong first half creates theatrical problems not easily solved. No one word or phrase-dramatic poem, epic drama-adequately characterizes a work that, teeming with ideas and treading so much ground, cannot but be something of a patchwork...
Responding to the lead of southern integrationists, a crowd of nearly 100 braved below freezing temperatures to picket the Metropolitan Theatre in downtown Boston yesterday afternoon. The picketing, sponsored by EPIC, was part of a nationwide Lincoln's Birthday protest against theatres in the ABC-Paramount chain--a chain that operates segregated theatres in the South...
Pressman said that the Boston demonstration was only one of at least 12 being staged in major cities across the country. The Student Non-Violent Co-ordinating Committee in Atlanta, Ga., had asked the Boston EPIC group, which last year led a boycott against the Woolworth chain, to join in the "second stage" of protesting against segregation practices...