Word: epical
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...masterpiece of the book is an eight-page epic called "Thunder Under the Kalahari" or, Aliquid Novi ex Botswana? Prefaced by an item in the London Times about the discovery of truffles in the Kalahari desert and the possible resulting boost to the economy of Botswana (the former Bechuanaland), it's a tale of intrigue, adventure, and romance. Perelman is ensconced in the Mushmouth Arms, Bexhill-on-Sea, knowing that it is at this type of dreary seaside resort that one runs into an eccentric fellow guest who imparts some remarkable tale. Sure enough, he finds a strange...
...20th Century-Fox epic of the attack on Pearl Harbor. Tora! Tora! Tora! [Oct. 5]: T'll make you a little bet that the original cast pulled off the attack for a lot less than $25 million. Oh well, you can't win them...
...Yemen shortly after the Suez War, I heard a black dock porter reciting an epic poem to a group who lounged in the cafe smoking the hubble-bubble pipe and chewing qat (a mildly narcotic green leaf). Normally, he would have chanted verses about heroes of the past. On this occasion his epic hero was a man named Nasser, who stood on the beaches of Port Said and picked up the British tanks and the French planes and hurled them back into the sea. For him, for other black and brown and yellow men, and wherever the cry "Allahu akbar...
...title of one of her best-known paintings, which depicts a deer skull with vast antlers hovering above a range of hills, is From the Faraway Nearby; it reflects her gift for telescopic and microscopic sight. On one hand, her work is obsessed with landscapes-as-epic, landscape as an active protagonist, exerting the immense dumb power of its presence on human intruders. "Those hills!" she exclaims, in front of a canvas of 1944, Black Place III. "They go on and on-it was like looking at two miles of gray elephants." In fact, her love of epic scale (although...
...capital letters: TOTAL LEISURE, FREEDOM, PLEASURE, etc., and he understands that they aren't enough. "It is important for you to understand the way we lived, " he says, realizing that he can explain much better than analyze. The descriptions of their life-the people who drifted through, the epic cross-country trip to California, the Stones-aren't too far from the standard fare. What he does manage to do is capture those peculiar historical moments and insights which drove him and his friends (Bloom's Band, they called it) first to their frantic enterprise in Washington and finally...