Word: epical
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Luckily, Zucker, Abrahams and Zucker had the good sense to end the movie when it starts to wind down. It was reduced in test screenings from 105 to 85 minutes and is still a bit drawn out. Naked Gun is no epic and does not claim to be one. It's not quite Airplane!, but it still flies...
...stuff of everyday American violence. A killer and a city street and a wild ride to an emergency room and a young body too broken to repair. But it was Camelot and this was John Kennedy, and television now rushed in to make the dreadful event an epic...
...their ilk. There is plenty of rowdy entertainment here. But there is also unsentimental sympathy for these East European Jews who, barred by prejudice from the genteel, gentile Establishment, created a patriarchy that was in its way more potent. The dream America that they placed on the screen -- an epic, colossal megafiction -- in time redefined the American dream for everyone. That empire of their own thus became a mighty colonial power in the world of ideas. Not only does Gabler restore to these pioneers their full, fractious humanity, but he also makes a rigorous case for their importance as shapers...
Yesterday Franklin, now a California lawyer, sipped a drink in a crowd at the Carey Cage gymnasium, remembering that epic clash. "It was over. Nothing you can do about it when it's over," he said. "I've gotten ribbed a lot over the years...
...early history of football at Harvard could easily have come out of a comic book. The first recorded account of a Harvard football game is an epic poem entitled "The Battle of the Delta." The poem, which is attributed to Rev. James C. Richmond. sings mock praise of a fierce football fight between the freshmen and sophomores in the autumn...