Word: epical
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Time: 1939. Place: England. Situation: ominous. Their country is rushing toward World War II, but the lads of Hornet squadron, in this vivid, bittersweet epic of the R.A.F., believe that the coming Battle of Britain will be a piece of cake...
...person who saw it." The cast of the courtroom drama includes Coppola, Producer Robert Evans and Investors Fred and Edward Doumanl and Victor Sayyah, who have been waging a bitter back-lot struggle for control of the way-over-budget ($58 million in all, some say) Harlem jazz-era epic with Richard Gere, Diane Lane and Gregory Nines. Says Evans of Coppola, in one reported sample of the prevailing civility: "He has as much respect for money as I do for Gaddafi." Waving aside intimations of drug abuse and gangland connections, Judge Hill left Evans in charge but gave final...
...years, scholars and zealous readers have heard confirmed rumors about the typographical mistakes in Ulysses. The first person to notice them was the author himself. Shortly before his epic novel appeared in February 1922, James Joyce wrote an editor: "I an extremely irritated by all those printer's errors." They were, in part, his own fault. An obsessive reviser, Joyce scrawled some 100,000 additional words in the margins of galleys as they were sent to him for proofreading. These changes had to be incorporated into what was al ready becoming a palimpsest of confusion: diverse typists' errant...
...Garage and at Superhero Universe (1105 Mass. Ave.), a few minutes' walk up Mass. Ave. towards Control Square, Superhero Universe also includes back issues of magazines like Playboy, National Lampoon, and Starlog, as well as all the special publications that herald new science fiction or the latest Lucas-Spielberg epic...
...took out all the Jewish parts!" Even now, Leone is planning to release a "full" version-all 4 hr. 10 min.-to Italian television in three years. And after that, who knows where it might show up? Perhaps, in some future life, Leone's flawed, fascinating epic will live happily ever after ... in America...