Word: epical
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...exploratory tradition, the Apollo 11 astronauts planted the American flag on the moon during their epic visit last July. The Apollo 12 astronauts, who are due to lift off this week, will do the same. The gesture will soon become more than a matter of tradition. Last week, when the Senate approved the $3.7 billion space authorization bill for 1970, congressional chauvinists had the final word. The bill orders U.S. astronauts to raise the flag as one of their initial acts on reaching firma beyond terra...
...Earth. Their mission: to dispose of an evil Ring by tossing it into the Zaza Pitts of Fordor before being captured by the nasty nares. With self-consciously clever digressions on drugs, violence, and the difficulties of modern communication, this book is undoubtedly meant to be received as an Epic for Our Time...
...taking these themes seriously, Lonesome Cowboys becomes a real Western. It's designed to be one: its brown-red-yellow tones, its surface-emphasizing grain, its often intensive cutting evoke the mood of the non-epic Western more successfully than any recent film. And like true Westerns, Lonesome Cowboys knows its themes and situations are myths about modern experience...
...side are toil, hunger, nakedness, the drenching storm, desertion, and death; on this side ease and pleasure. There lies Peru with its riches; here, Panama and its poverty. Choose, each man, what best becomes a brave Castilian. For my part, I go to the South.'" It was an epic moment, one of the many, in fact, that The Royal Hunt of the Sun shamelessly overlooks in favor of pop-psych melodramatics. A pity, too, because when this Freudian version of the conquest of Peru concentrates on the pomp and circumstance traditional to movie spectaculars...
Also unlike Rider, Restaurant is incredibly close to earth. Grass is smoked, girls are screwed, and motorcycles are raced, but Penn and his wonderful film editor. Dede Allen, do not point at these things as Dennis Hopper does in the Peter Fonda epic. Nor do we get the glamorized, generalized "real-life" performances of Rider in this picture. Arlo is a natural, uneasy, stuttering Arlo-not a hippie-stud (like Fonda) or a hippie-hippie (like Hopper...