Word: epical
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...draw; and a dead hero is packed in salt and carted more than a thousand ceremonious miles to his grave. There are also long, featureless stretches that add up to the reading equivalent of driving across Texas. But McMurtry knows exactly what he is doing in this sentimental epic. He is an uncommonly shrewd judge of book flesh...
...Care Bears could lure visitors outside. The weather also diminished opportunities for the festival's oldest and most assiduously recorded sideshow: the ritual display of starlet flesh. Young women desiring to disrobe in public were forced to go high tech. Isabelle Solar, chief ornament of the French soft-core epic Joan, could be seen on the closed-circuit hotel TV network slipping into a steamy bubble bath. In other respects, Cannes voyeurism may be entering the Workout '80s. The town summoned its largest turnout of gawkers for a midnight chorus line of musclewomen from the American documentary Pumping Iron...
...Maui became a heavy hangout and partly out of the counterculture reflex to challenge prevailing standards of taste. Today there is a hard core of fanatics who collect the shirts as if they were first editions and value them as what Eliot Hubbard, Publicity Director of CBS's Epic Records, calls "high art." Hubbard's shirt stash which, at 300 and counting, he claims is "the third biggest in the world," goes heavy on popular florals. "My tastes," he says, "run to big botanicals and big biologicals...
...blaze of success. Rampant gentrification has made SoHo's once funky lofts affordable only to the moneyed, and its former have-not inhabitants have also become chic. Anderson has forsaken the streets for major concert halls like the Brooklyn Academy, where in 1983 she performed her six-hour multimedia epic, United States, Parts I-IV. Wilson directed Marc-Antoine Charpentier's baroque opera Medee last fall in France; Reich's music has been performed by major orchestras from San Francisco to Cologne. The next extraordinary concentration of creative artists is now probably taking shape. Wherever it turns...
...GWTW is storming the family living room. Since it appeared on store shelves a month ago as an $89.95 double- videocassette package, the 3-hr. 51- min. epic has zoomed toward the top of the sales charts. For the past three weeks it has claimed second place behind leader Star Trek III, which sells for $29.95. So successful has the debut been that the tape's producer, MGM/UA Home Video, expects sales to reach $27 million by the end of the year...