Word: epical
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wrote that verse that one day, The Ring, his ring, would lure thousands to the Darkness of a movie house, bind them with the fetters that a $4.00 admission fee lashes to its victims and force them to watch a cinematic travesty. He could not have known that his epic fantasy trilogy, The Lord of The Rings, would one day become a sloppy animated cartoon billed as the triumph of the imagination in movies. He could not have known...or he might not ever have written the books...
Germany's distinguished novelist Günter Grass a male chauvinist? One of the biggest, says a German women's group, who named him M.C. of the Month for his new book, an epic about a sexist talking fish. During a visit to Atlanta, where he read passages from The Flounder, Grass naturally had some talking to do. "The women's lib movement," he said, "has a lot of women who want to use power like men. We have enough stupid men who use power." Grass also had some criticisms about American writers, who, he claims, have...
...filmic biography of a newspaper magnate. Like all extraordinary movies based on real people or actual events, Midnight Express has boldly transcended the limits of its true-life story to bring forth a larger-than-life refinement. The five-year incarceration of Billy Hayes becomes an inspiring epic of one very ordinary man's struggle to endure and ultimately prevail which are at once unspeakable in their brutality and incomprehensible in their mindlessness. In the hands of Parker and screenwriter Oliver Stone, Billy Hayes is transformed into an Everyman-type hero coping with the erosion of his identity...
...enterprising group of South House students is trying to bring together free posters, records and t-shirts from Universal Studios, free beer from Anheuser Busch, and togas rented for 25 cents apiece from Harvard Student Agencies (HSA), to throw an epic Quad toga party...
Boston Stylistics Circle--Gregory Russon, of the Brown University English Department, on "Linguistic Theory and Formulaic Epic," Wellesley College Club, Library (second floor...