Word: epical
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this one: shy middle-class British kid grows up listening to Mozart and Richard Rodgers, teams with buddy to write school musical, is discovered by slumming music critic, goes on to pen smash biblical epic Jesus Christ Superstar and monster hit Evita, splits with pal, has megatriumphs with Cats and Starlight Express, then comes up with extra-hot spook, The Phantom of the Opera. Along the way swaps bell-bottoms for swank Belgravia flat, 1,350-acre English country estate, choice property on the French Riviera, $6 million apartment in Manhattan, private jet, beautiful second wife and a worldwide musical...
PROBABLY because most of us think this is where the action is, the big city has been the focus of most films made over the past few decades. In his epic depiction of events in a small town in Provence, Director Claude Berri defies this tradition of citification. In both Jean de Florette and its recently released sequel, Manon of the Spring, Berri proves that a sleepy rural village may not always be quite what it seems...
...white man, King's moral example and leadership had begun the transformation of the South, and of America, winning for blacks the human rights that even a Civil War a century earlier had not bestowed. The civil rights movement from Montgomery to Memphis was an American epic, with a thousand evocations of place and name: the lunch counters of Greensboro in 1960; the "Freedom Riders" of 1961; SNCC; CORE; the March on Washington; James Meredith; Medgar Evers; Bull Connor in Birmingham; Philadelphia, Miss.; Schwerner, Goodman and Chaney . . . But race and slavery, America's original sin, came back always...
...they drank "student tea," a concoction of hot water and sugar. The favorite diversion was foreign movies, most of them captured by the Red Army from German forces and shown in the "culture club" on the main floor. Johnny Weissmuller's Tarzan movies were most popular. After one such epic show, the Stromynka hostel would resound with jungle whoops by the students...
...still want to eat their cake without having it on their waistlines, and speaking of cake, Texas is exporting cheesecake to New York, the home of the original. Frightened by a shaky market (and perhaps having exhausted their ingenuity), restaurateurs began to think small, and the future of the epic theme eatery is much in doubt. A stronger trend in dining out is the renaissance of Italian cuisine in stylish settings -- beating the fancy French at their own game...