Word: epical
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Incumbent Gerald R. Ford's patently absurd description of Poland as a free and independent state dominated press coverage of the 1976 debates. Ford's remark was a classic example of the kind of epic mental lapse that the debates' set the stage for and award top billing...
...Yale Coach Cozza sensed his role as epic villain and played it to the hilt. Cozza restrained his punter on the sidelines and waved quarterback Mike Curtin forward...
Those groups are not the only ones skeptical of Murdoch's epic vision. The Big Three networks contend that neither Fox nor anyone else can currently afford to provide the twelve to 18 hours per day of programming needed to compete with them. "What Murdoch has proposed sounds interesting, but it's not a network as we know it," contends M.S. Rukeyser, an NBC executive vice president...
Notwithstanding the obvious difficulties encountered in Reisz's attempt to capture Cline's life within the grandiose format of a Gandhi-esque epic, the film does manage to provide its desperate viewers with two fabulous performances as well as a slickly assembled score that will have hard-core Stones fans running to the Coop to snap up the sure-to-be-re-released copies of Cline's albums...
...least scrupulous, or add-your-own-superlative adjective variation on John Wayne just isn't real. Otto McNab, the Mexican-killingest, honestest, independentest, good-community-manest Texas Ranger is almost so absurd that the book becomes humor rather than drama. There were some pretty tough Rangers, but none so epic in every quality...