Word: epical
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...craggy headland with two unusually symmetrical valley glaciers, the whole of it a part of a large island, when he discovered what he was looking at was a walrus." In the author's luminous notes, the Eskimos, the animals and the landscape are components in a vast, unfinished epic. "The continuous work of the imagination," Lopez concludes, is "to bring what is actual together with what is dreamed." This merger is a crystalline triumph...
...regular season action last year, Harvard rolled to a 6-5 overtime victory in Hamilton, N.Y., and a 3-0 triumph in Cambridge, neither game giving much indication of the epic battle to follow...
...Cornell boosters mercilessly taunted Scarpa, the game was quickly evolving into an epic battle...
...raised over the tomb of abstract expressionism. Its artists, we have been told ad nauseam, shifted the focus of modern art from Paris to New York; Moses-like, they led American art from provincial darkness into the radiance of history, opening nothing less than a new chapter in the epic of American self-esteem, and so on, and so forth. So much money and institutional clout have been poured into and around the pyramid that it now seems as fixed a historical construct as that of Cheops. Nevertheless, it has not commemorated all the artists equally. Kline is the proof...
FIVE DAYS SHORT of the 432nd anniversary of Lady Jane Grey's death Paramount Pictures begins its limited release of Lady Jane, a two and a half-hour historical epic featuring a slightly embellished version of the events surrounding the girl-queen's life and death. Brimming with Renaissance cantatas sung by an invisible chorus, elegantly outfitted noble lords and ladies, broad, sweeping shots of the glorious English countryside, meticulously reconstructed regal interiors and a heavy dose of iconographical pageantry, Lady Jane would seem more at home in the context of such decade-old films...