Word: epical
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...gift for vivid images helped make his post-World War II epic The Tin Drum into an international classic, but most of his literary fans will be surprised to learn that the talent of German Author Gunter Grass, 56, is not Limited to the printed word. A major retrospective of Grass's visual art-80 etchings, 43 lithographs, 96 drawings and 27 sculptures-has been put together for the first time in Darmstadt. In addition to seeing the fish, snails and cooks that inhabit his earlier books, exhibition visitors who ponder his clay Tablets will get an advance glimpse...
...rich synthesis of 20th century art, from Mird's squiggles and Mondrian's Broadway Boogie-woogie to Charles Eames' playfulness and Sister Mary Corita's sense of celebration, brought together, as Jerde puts it, "to express a moment rather than memorialize an epic...
...said that if Shakespeare were alive today he would be not a playwright but a film maker. Case in point: Henry V. With its sprawling dramatic structure, a dozen "locations," some 40 speaking parts and a huge, climactic battle scene, Henry V just about qualifies as Shakespeare's epic moviescript. SEE the lords of two great nations exchange nasty taunts and arm for Armageddon...
There is also Victory, the Jacksons' spanking-new album, a stereophonic silver lining in search of and, indeed, in need of, a few stray clouds. Earnest, upbeat and insistently optimistic, Victory was shipped out by Epic Records in almost unprecedented numbers (2 million copies hit American record retail outlets last week). The first single, State of Shock, a politely raunchy dance number in which Michael can be heard ducting with Jackson-for-aday Mick Jagger, is doing nicely. But this is very much an album in need of what the record business calls tour support. The most interesting song...
Seuss. His latest epic, The Butter Battle Book, is a parable of the nuclear age. Two peoples, the Yooks and the Zooks, find themselves in such fierce-and pointless-confrontation that each is ready to drop the fatal Bitsy Big-Boy Bomberoo on the other. They are very similar, these Yooks and Zooks. They seem to differ in only one way: one side takes its bread butter-side up, the other butter-side down. Yooks, Zooks. East, West. Butter-side up, butter-side down...