Word: epical
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...citing causes, all the while knowing that they can be certain only of enumerating events. In War and Peace, Napoleon claims that what happens is "destiny when I can guide it, chance when it slips through my fingers," and the historian believes him. But, Tolstoy implies in his epic novel, chance--and the random effect it has on the lives of millions of people--is history's major determining factor. The victory at Borodino towards the end of the novel belongs to the aging Russian general Kutuzov not because he stopped the French but because, looking at the carnage...
...there will be no car crashes. Kristofferson also posed in Playboy with Sarah Miles, and they looked beautiful. Of all the celebrities in A Star is Born, however, Kristofferson does have one redeeming value--he despises Jon and Barb. Even so, nothing can rescue this beauty parlor epic...
...School, and there the first of Hine's great subjects appeared to him: Ellis Island. Over a period of five years, 1904 to '09, Hine would take the ferry out to the cavernous halls through which dispossessed Europe was being strained into America and diligently record the epic of hope, bewilderment and fear that passed before him in the crowded immigration pens...
...Nora in Ibsen's A Doll's House and then appearing in several popular films. In 1937, however, her career as an actress came to an end. At the time, Japan began its full-scale invasion of China. The Communists' Red Army had just completed its epic Long March from the Southeast to its new headquarters at Yenan in remote northern Shensi province...
...another matter: Tennstedt elicits a sound with the startling ring of rightness. Indeed, his musical logic may be the most profound since the late Otto Klemperer's. Yet as opposed to the monolithic stasis that sometimes afflicted Klemperer, Tennstedt's energy is a constant refreshment. Leading an epic Bruckner Seventh Symphony with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra two weeks ago, or a steely, gleaming Prokofiev Fifth Symphony with the New York Philharmonic last week, Tennstedt presented a rare fusion of intelligence and passion...