Word: epical
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...once more to retire from the ring; a groggy Frazier, clutching his pride, refused to quit. Whether either man will live up to those first postfight statements remains to be seen, but there was no doubt that the fight itself was the best each boxer had fought since that epic brawl in 1971 when then Champion Frazier won a 15-round decision against Ali, inflicting a rare knockdown in the process...
...woman away!" although he knew very well who she was; she had been his dinner hostess on frequent occasions. But this was a mere ungallantry. Churchill and his colleagues in the governing Liberal Party were so enraged at the suffragettes that they embarked on a vindictive antifeminist campaign. An epic struggle ensued...
...Cross, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington) and a Columbia Pictures producer, Buchman was blacklisted after admitting to a congressional committee in 1951 that he had once been a Communist. He returned to film work in the 1960s serving as one of the writers on the Elizabeth Taylor-Richard Burton epic, Cleopatra, and later produced and wrote the film adaptation of Mary McCarthy's bitchy bestseller, The Group...
...Berio's first uses of electronic techniques. Another work from the same period is Differences, which pits a small chamber ensemble against a taped version of the same piece. It is a John-Henry-Versus-steam-hammer kind of conflict, only here the sense of epic struggle is all but alone. The taped sounds weave in and out of the performance, giving it an almost antiphonal quality. The only real clash comes when the taped sounds are electronically altered, creating a sense of war between the media...
Like many composers of the past 25 years, Berio has devoted himself largely to chamber music. Like the epic poems and the panoramic landscape paintings, the symphony has been going through hard times recently. Instead of music conceived and executed on the grand scale, composers have turned to smaller forms because they offer greater involvement for both performers and audiences...