Word: epical
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...grosses ($3.4 billion), but judging by the Academy Award nominations announced last week, it was a vintage year for pictures and performances as well. By and large, the nominated were both predictable and respectable. Three Best Picture nominees dominated the Academy's voting: Sir Richard Attenborough's epic Gandhi with eleven nominations; Tootsie, directed by Sydney Pollack, with ten; and Steven Spielberg's E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial with nine. (The other contenders for Best Picture: Sidney Lumet's The Verdict and Constantin Costa-Gavras' Missing...
...images are familiar yet disturbing, snapshots from a country of the mind. Welcome to Laurie Anderson's United States, Parts I-IV, given its full-length premiere last week at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Part narrative epic, part rock opera, part home movie, United States is a sharp-eyed, sharp-tongued, aphoristic examination of 20th century life in 78 segments, lasting six hours and taking two evenings to perform. Wagnerian in its scope, Carrollian in its absurdist wit, Carsonian in its deadpan, stand-up-comic timing, Anderson's work is the biggest, most ambitious and most successful...
...thanks of a grateful nation. Trouble in Paradise is a series of twelve interrelated songs set within the balmy regions of superficial ease where disaster keeps bobbing to the surface like a corpse in a reflecting pool. I Love L.A., which opens the record, is a mock-heroic epic of the sun-kissed glories of Southern California, mixing conventional imagery of Beach Boys serenades and fast rides in convertibles with darker asides about "a big nasty redhead" and a bum "down on his knees." Like the other keynote songs on the record-Christmas in Capetown, Miami-I Love L.A. turns...
...goes all out on its epic The Winds...
...book. There is no evidence of foul play in any of their ends, but the quadruple coincidence is a fitting postscript to the life of William J. ("Wild Bill") Donovan. Founder of the Office of Strategic Services, the nation's first spy agency, Donovan was a figure of epic personal courage, vast energy and enduring mystery. "What a man!" President Dwight D. Eisenhower declared when Donovan died in 1959. "We have lost the last hero...