Word: epical
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...more idealized ways, and in ways which echo a deeper social disillusionment. Love comes at the purgative ending of The Wild Bunch, when gunslinger Pike Bishop tries to save Mexican rebel Angel from the torture of the Federales--only to be slaughtered in a suicidal attack both epic and glorious. It becomes muted, perhaps sadder, in The Ballad of Cable Hogue: Hogue's woman leaves him and his desert home, and returns too late to share his life. She brings back San Francisco finery, and the circa 1910 auto that kills...
Tatrallyay produced another epic moment in fencing during his second bout. Retreating rapidly in the face of a Hopkins fencer's running attack, he tripped and executed a backward roll in the midst of which he managed to score on his incredulous opponent. The incident added further luster to the legend of Tatrallyay's technique, which has been called by many the "most unique style in America...
Shortly thereafter, the crowd broke into the building, took control and cut off the power to the computers. Officials countered by summoning the police. It was not an epic battle, but it was enough to convince Stanford President Richard Lyman that he had to deal with the question of H. Bruce Franklin, associate professor of English, recognized expert on Melville, and self-proclaimed Maoist. Only a month earlier, Franklin had joined a band of students in heckling Henry Cabot Lodge, former U.S. ambassador to Saigon, with cries of "oink-oink." When Lyman complained that Franklin's behavior was inappropriate...
...Mexico City where he also writes a weekly comic strip. Tired of "working with flesh" as a stage director, Jodorowsky made his first movie in order to "work with symbols." "John Wayne is a symbol, not a man," he explains. "For me, a picture must not have poetry, but epic poetry. Search for archetypes. I go it alone...
BOUND TO VIOLENCE, by Yambo Ouologuem. A young Mali novelist's exuberant mock epic of the bloody history of a real but imaginary African empire...