Word: epical
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cold reckoning of Hollywood's moneymen, The Cotton Club was one of last Christmas' turkeys. Despite its lavish production, a big-name director (Francis Coppola) and star (Richard Gere) and huge advance publicity, the $47 million show-biz epic was squeezed out in the scramble for holiday audiences by such hits as Beverly Hills Cop and The Flamingo...
...theatrical success and, in some cases, without a theatrical release," says Jon Peisinger, president of Vestron Video. "More movies today are created simply on the basis of potential revenues from home video." Vestron was the distributor of The Warrior and the Sorceress, for example, a low-budget action epic starring David Carradine, which had only a brief theatrical run in a few cities, but has sold more than 50,000 cassettes...
...books of sexual counsel, including Changing Bodies, Changing Lives and A Way of Love, A Way of Life, as well as such popular Judy Blume novels for teenagers as Forever and Deenie. In Buffalo, the Protestant right is allied with conservative Catholics in opposing the so-called Epic program in area grade schools. This parent-and- teacher guidance course is aimed at stemming alcoholism, child abuse and teen pregnancy, but foes say it probes too deeply into the privacy of children and teaches youngsters that there are no absolute rights and wrongs. In one Buffalo suburb, Epic has already been...
Such was the unexpectedly heart-warming climax to a thoroughly manic chase after the biggest prize ever offered in the U.S. The award had swollen to epic size because no winner had been declared in seven successive plays of New York's Lotto 48 game. As the jackpot climbed first to $23 million, then $33.5 million and finally to its peak, serpentine lines of ticket buyers formed all over the state, each person shelling out $1 for each chance to choose two sets of six numbers. In Manhattan the queues were so long and contained such a variety of people...
...United States themselves," wrote Walt Whitman, "are essentially the greatest poem." That epic is remade by every new generation, and today its rhythm, structure and content are unlike any that went before. The nation is growing middle-aged and more solitary. Men and women are delaying marriage, delaying childbirth, having few or no children at all. Real income, once expected to rise as naturally as a hot-air balloon, has leveled off. For many, home ownership, once thought of as practically a constitutional right, has become a dream denied. Demography is destiny, and Americans of today, in ways both obvious...