Word: epical
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Three years and several epic battles later, most people involved agree that the two have had considerable influence on each other's work and on Harvard drama in general--though, to be sure, neither Rauch nor Warner nor anyone else can pin-point just what that influence has been...
Lord emphasizes that this is a research collection. "The main purpose of it is to determine precisely the way in which oral traditional epic was transmitted," he said, adding that it is a research tool which has not been extensively used by scholars...
Through the 3500 aluminum disks and about 22.500 texts, which document the epic poetry of Yugoslavia, Albania and Bosnia, it is possible to piece together the origins of the earliest oral literature which survives today--the Iliad and the Odyssey of Homer...
Other items include a collection of Greek shadow puppets and slides from Greek shadow plays, or Karagiosis and a recording of the Indian Geser epic...
...truly magnificent--light that creeps into darkened rooms, the moonlight that illuminates the expansive midwestern farmland or even the bright glare in the stadium. This light in fuses many scenes in a breathtaking moments transports possibly melodramatic moments into fantasy. And Redford as Hobbs gives the film its American epic quality. Redford plays the store and wholesome Hobbs wonderfully. Oddly enough, Redford does not have many lines or verbally revealing moments. In fact, the screenplay is one of the film's weakest points. Yet it is Redford's captivating screen presence and his seemingly perceptive and honest gaze that allow...