Word: epical
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...directed by an eighth-grade classmate in which Madonna had an egg cooked on her tummy. She can currently be seen, under somewhat more professional auspices, in Warner Bros.' Vision Quest; Orion's Desperately Seeking Susan is scheduled for imminent release. There are no announced plans for the egg epic, although at the current rate of exposure, it may be the only piece of Madonna celluloid that has not yet seen daylight...
Ginsberg: That's all over the world. I've spent a lot of time working, studying and performing with Australian aborigines. They have the oldest body of epic literature in the world; it goes back 12,000 years. Non-written language, purely writing on the breath, on the spirit, was a world tradition that preceded the invention of the printing press. Words are separated from speech when printed on the page. They lose their body, their breath because with the written word it is just the eye to the page, bypassing the physical element...
...credit, and possibly to his regret, Nimeiri has stuck by those words ever since. Even as the epic famine sweeping Ethiopia has increased the number of victims crossing into eastern Sudan to some 3,000 daily, Nimeiri has continued his nation's traditional open-door policy. Yet despite a fast- building effort by local authorities and international relief agencies to provide food and shelter for the Ethiopians, the refugees are finding themselves in a nation that is almost as bereft of aid as the one they left. There are now about 1 million refugees in the country, and their numbers...
...sinking pound was a new and embarrassing political problem for Thatcher. Opposition Leader Neil Kinnock called her handling of the crisis an "epic of bungling indecision." Two weeks ago, Thatcher's press secretary, Bernard Ingham, aggravated the tense situation by telling reporters that they could be "absolutely certain that we are not going to defend" a particular value of the pound. That unfortunate remark helped speed the currency's slide and forced Thatcher to abandon her hands-off policy...
...then, Sir Dickie is accustomed to being patient. He has wanted to do another musical ever since 1969, when he mixed song and satire in his first film, Oh! What a Lovely War, but got sidetracked by the making of Gandhi. Looking back, Attenborough claims that filming the epic of the Mahatma was simplicity itself compared with telling the backstage story of Broadway gypsies. "If you're controlling a crowd of 250,000, it's logistics to a large degree," he observes. "You have the ambience of the plains of India and the slums of Delhi working...