Word: epical
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that Coach Fink was literally correct, that the Friendsville Foxes would never win again. Last week, however, after spinning out their streak to 138 consecutive losses, the Foxes encountered a team almost equally consistent: St. Camillus Academy of Corbin, Ky., which had lost 48 in a row. In the epic clash of losers v. failures, the Foxes somehow managed to stumble to victory by a score of 62-43. Said the team's new coach, Rick Little, contemplating his victory streak of one: "Oh well, you can't lose them...
Lord Jim. A big budget, shot-on-location epic adaptation starring Peter O'Toole. Effective as an adventure story about a hard-to-figure guy, but the excitement of Richard Brook's film is not the excitement of Conrad's novel, and the intelligence of the novel is missing altogether...
...lewd, providing an overview that is at once serious and hilarious. Again, in Grendel, the monster's ability to stand back and look at man from a unique perspective makes the novel both exciting and valuable reading. This remains true even after the novelty of relating the Beowulf epic has worn...
SATURDAY: Ivan the Terrible, Part I. Sergei Eisenstein's epic biography, the first part of a never-completed trilogy begun during WWII. Music by Prokofiev...
SUNDAY: The Ten Commandments. DeMille's 1923 version of Moses' deliverance of the children of Israel apparently didn't satisfy him. The inimitable Cecil B. redid his epic in 1956 with 25,000 extras and the parting of the Red Sea and won a special effects Oscar. Shown for the first time on television, in its entirety. CH. 5. 8 p.m. Color...