Word: epical
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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NASHVILLE. Robert Altman's rhinestone epic of contemporary America, told with casual, muted force through the lives of a couple of dozen stars and hopefuls in the country-music capital...
...London Correspondent Lawrence Malkin was forced to circle warily around master Movie Maker Stanley Kubrick, whose aversion to journalists is well known. So Malkin began his reporting for this week's cover story by talking to members of the technical crew and cast of Kubrick's latest epic film, Barry Lyndon. In Los Angeles, meanwhile, Correspondent Leo Janos learned more about Kubrick's style during interviews with Ryan O'Neal, who had kept a diary throughout the shooting of the movie. In New York, Senior Editor Martha Duffy...
FIFTH PARADOX: Stanley Kubrick himself. Barry Lyndon may be an austere epic, but an epic it surely is. Such works pose complex logistical and technical problems that must be solved along with the aesthetic questions that arise every time a new camera setup is chosen. Kubrick's basic cast and crew of 170-augmented by hundreds of extras and supporting specialists as needed -crawled from location to location across Ireland and England for 8% months. Normally, the commanders of cinematic operations on this scale are outgoing, not to say colorfully flamboyant characters...
Helprin uses a poetic style to capture the tone of the narrative ballad or the epic poem. This gives his plots and characters a remote quality: they are seen through a haze of words. The richness of his language can be a source of delight, and in some of his stories, like "A Jew of Persia," it is effective in creating an atmosphere...
...city. Even hard-line Treasury Secretary William Simon quietly began to ponder a plan for assistance. Some give was also apparent on the other side. Carey and his financial advisers, who gained great power over the city, ordered deeper cuts in the city budget and girded for an epic battle over a tax increase. The Governor had to overcome the opposition of upstate Republicans in the legislature as well as the Democratic minority caucus - blacks and Puerto Ricans - who protested reductions in social services and demanded a larger voice in city management. When he finally won his tax package, Carey...