Word: epical
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...journey itself takes on epic proportions, though like most great Russian picaresques (such as Dead Souls) the distance traveled is insignificant and indeed pointless. His monologue, punctuated only by the names of train stations along the Moscow-Petushki line, lurches into and out of reality like a rusty zoom lens. Sometimes whispered confession, sometimes giddy rhetoric, it continually breaks into schizoid dialogue, accosting the reader as an ill-at-ease fellow-traveler and involuntary confidant...
Flick adds that other Folk and Myth related projects he is overseeing include the study of wizardry in fantasy literature, of oral tradition in the New Testament, and of the changing image of the Persian epic, Shahnamen...
...long talk with TIME'S Washington Contributing Editor Hugh Sidey, Pownall gave his first public reflections on the epic merger battle of 1982. Highlights of their conversation...
...away with only four minor trophies. Gandhi took most of the awards E. T. was expected to get, including Best Director (Richard Attenborough), Best Original Screenplay (John Briley), Best Cinematography (Billy Williams and Ronnie Taylor) and Best Film Editing (John Bloom). All in all, the 3-hr. 5-min. epic won eight prizes, more than any other film since Cabaret, which snatched eight...
...book, part thriller, part history, part romantic epic, is a remarkable feat of technique, and of soul. Gage deftly shifts among hundreds of characters, dozens of locales, and a welter of big-scale narratives-World War II, the Greek civil war, the exodus of Mourgana refugees in every direction-that in lesser hands would overwhelm the story of one woman's family. He manages to be fair to people he has every reason to despise: he evokes the grievances of the guerrillas as fully as their treachery, the gullibility of the villagers as well as their jealousy and spite...