Word: epical
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Perversely, Gloucester has spurned this offer, rallying behind Geller. And WVCA has managed to endure. The newspapers have described the case as an "epic David-and-Goliath struggle." And the mayor of Gloucester has pointed out, in case anyone forgets, that in the original, it was David who won. (Bell notes an irony in this: Geller's cause has been represented in Washington by a public interest law group paid for by foundations and corporations considerably more powerful than Grandbanke.) The next round is scheduled for argument in federal court this fall. In the end, Geller believes, the station will...
...bank. His last film, Year of the Dragon, got mixed reviews and was a box-office flop; the one before, Heaven's Gate, wrote the book--and was the subject of one--on celluloid disasters. But that has not stopped Director Michael Cimino from undertaking yet another big-budget epic: The Sicilian, based on Mario Puzo's best-selling novel. Now being filmed in Italy, the movie centers on the short, bloody career of Italian Gangster Salvatore Giuliano, a real-life Robin Hood of the late '40s who dreamed of turning Sicily into a U.S. state. He is played...
...that is better forgotten. Others will always remember the day in 1968 when mighty Yale was leading by 29-13 with only 42 seconds remaining in the Game, and then all kinds of incredible things began happening. The Crimson headline next day: HARVARD WINS, 29-29. Others remember less epic events: sculling on the Charles, drinking at Cronin's, the ludicrous vaudeville shows at the Hasty Pudding Club, the sun rising over the blue dome of Lowell House. And as with Oxford or the Sorbonne, the House of Commons or the Vatican or any other very long-lived institution...
...write a few songs while cadging odd jobs. He built swimming pools. He worked house construction. Once, in 1975, a dream almost came true: Elvis was going to record one of Earle's songs, but he never showed up at the studio. After cutting a few singles for Epic and an album for CBS that was shelved, Earle recalls, "I lost all my confidence. I thought I had lost my edge...
...large majority of the 20,000 alumni expected to attend the five-day party have fended for themselves in buying tickets and finding accommodations, but most visible in Cambridge yesterday were hundreds of the class and school representatives to whom Harvard extended special invitations to participate in the epic bash...