Word: epical
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Here's Emo the Pragmatist, the one who has "a plan to get Hasenfus out of Nicaragua--trade Daniloff for him." In March, this Renaissance man of comedy can be seen in "HBO On Location," and in April he will be releasing a new album on Epic Records and appearing in the film remake of Journey to the Center of the Earth...
Here is a movie betrayed by its own central image: South America's Iguazu Falls. Beautiful and powerful, the falls possess both an awesome mystery and an epic grandeur that only a great film could hope to duplicate. The Mission, a collaboration between the director of The Killing Fields and the writer of A Man for All Seasons (among other big machines), is not nearly up to the challenge...
What does it all mean? (We academics do have to ask that question after all.) Emily Vermeule, our great classicist and noted Sox fan, argued in 1978 that defeat had been inevitable because the Sox's epic matches the literary form of classical tragedy, where the hero must...
...Wilson and Glass will join forces again with a new opera based on the tales of the Arabian nights. Their last collaboration was the Rome section of Wilson's global epic, the CIVIL warS, which will be performed in December as the closing attraction of the Brooklyn Academy of Music's Next Wave Festival, now in its fourth season. The academy, affectionately known as BAM, has become a national showcase for avant-garde work; its president, Harvey Lichtenstein, is the movement's Sol Hurok. When Lichtenstein courageously produced Wilson's The Life and Times of Sigmund Freud...
...long as I have an outlet for the other things I want to do, usually I am really happy to work within the band form." But Byrne's breakthrough with True Stories may tip the balance. He is reading books like Watunna: An Orinoco Creation Cycle and The Epic of Gilgamesh, brainstorming on a new movie. In one way or another, every rock singer wants to be Elvis Presley. But here, all of a sudden, is one who can take a cut at being Orson Welles. Glass thinks "the Talking Heads will go on," but adds, "For many...