Word: epical
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Charge of the Light Brigade,' or 'How they brought good news to Aix,' move us in exactly the same way that one of Mr. Shue's runs or Mr. Yont'* touchdowns do, only not half so intensely. A good football game is an epic, it rouses the oldest part of us. Poetry is great only in that it suggests action and rouses great emotions. The world gets all its great enthusiasms and emotions from pure strains of sinew...
...Michael didn't outdance Paul, and Paul didn't outsing Michael," says ever so diplomatic Director Bob Giraldi, 44, of the newly released Paul McCartney-Michael Jackson rock video Say Say Say. The mini-epic stars Jackson, 25, McCartney, 41, and his wife Linda, 41, as a team of vaudeville con artists on the run in the Wild West. McCartney and Jackson collaborated last year in the writing and singing of The Girl Is Mine, one of the half-dozen hit songs on Jackson's phenomenally successful Thriller LP. Next came their current...
...Rushdie's skill at making historical facts and sheer inventiveness seem equally true and equally preposterous. On the eve of India's independence, the owner of a moviehouse in Delhi tries to appease both Hindus and Muslims by showing a double feature. One is a vegetarian epic "about a lone, masked hero who roamed the Indo-Gangetic plain liberating herds of beef cattle from their keepers," the other a Randolph Scott western of the genre "in which cows got massacred and the good guys feasted on steaks." Nobody comes, and then the theater is bombed; the blast kills...
...S.C.C.O.G. is not a whimsical organization. It was formed in 1939, seven years after the original Los Angeles Olympics, by a group of local businessmen. Merely securing the U.S. bidding rights constituted an epic campaign: four times they lost out to Detroit. When the U.S. Olympic Committee finally endorsed the Los Angeles bid for 1976, Moscow at the last minute decided to make it a contest of superpowers, and Montreal was selected in a spirit of compromise. Though New York City in the early going made a lavish presentation for '84, by the late-1977 deadline Los Angeles...
...years ago, for example, William Faulkner was loitering about his home town of Oxford, Miss., being called "Count-no-count" by derisive neighbors for his aloof artiness. During the late '20s and early '30s he produced a series of novels that amounted, one by one, to an epic saga of the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, a sum greater than the number of its parts. Though TIME published a cover story on Faulkner in 1939, several years had passed since his greatest books were written and several years more were to pass before his total work could be accurately reckoned...