Word: epical
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...basic form of TIME journalism was the narrative?chronological narrative when possible. And so it remains. But increasingly, exposition and analysis had to supplement narration. This fact reflects a larger reality. America is an epic of action, but more and more, action is stymied by complexity or conflict. In a sense, America today is less a "story" than an argument...
...capital of Western Australia. Racing conditions in the Indian Ocean will undoubtedly be far different from those on Rhode Island Sound. Nor is it likely that the hearty and hail fellow atmosphere of Perth will lure the well-heeled international crowds that Newport has attracted. This year's epic contest has already irrevocably changed America's Cup racing. Clearly, future challengers will concentrate on technology as they have not done in the past. While the 12-meter class has always encouraged innovation, the Australian inventions will likely set off new and more intense experimentation in yacht design...
Watson and Crick are reunited to mark an epic event...
SOMEONE in University Hall a bright idea this summer for cutting down the chaos shopping period brings to the Core--a chaos which last February reached epic proportions and permanently besmirched the reputations of some popular courses, such as the crisis-ridden Literature and Arts B-16. This fall's innovation is not philosophical--like some officials' previous, rejected proposal that students be required to reregister for courses--but merely procedural. The syllabi of all Core courses have been bound into a booklet for easy reference, thus eliminating, it was hoped, the crowds who clog lecture halls merely to pick...
...have played the voice of God in the 1966 movie The Bible, but Director John Huston, 77, cannot move mountains. So last month Huston moved to Cuernavaca, Mexico, in the shadow of Popocatepetl, site of his new epic, Under the Volcano. The film, which stars Albert Finney, Jacqueline Bisset and Anthony Andrews, takes place during a single day in 1938, mostly inside the head of its drunken protagonist. "The consul is the most complicated character I've ever had in a film," says Huston. "He's like a Churchill gone bad, a great man with a flaw." Bisset...