Word: epical
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Coming soon . . . the blockbuster business epic of the year! See corporate giants devour one another in titanic clashes. See captains of industry race against midnight deadlines to save their power and prestige. Will Bill Agee of Bendix Corp. and his beautiful blond bride Mary escape the clutches of Martin Marietta Corp.'s menacing Tom Pownall? Will tough old Harry Gray of United Technologies foil their plans to find happiness in the embrace of Ed Hennessy of Allied Corp.? Find out in Takeover, the drama that asks the question: "Is this any way to run a company...
...dissension that has plagued the government of West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt and his embattled Social Democratic Party (S.P.D.) had reached epic dimensions. For months, the often abrasive Schmidt had struggled to hold together his troubled ruling coalition amid signs that its junior partner of 13 years, the Free Democratic Party, was preparing to bolt the government. Last week, in a crossfire of public recriminations, four Free Democratic Cabinet members, including Party Leader Hans-Dietrich Genscher, who was also Schmidt's Foreign Minister, resigned their portfolios...
...strolling about. The Walk, a record of one such expedition and the longest piece in this collection, belongs on any short list of great 20th century stories. Its narrator is an excruciatingly proper and longwinded sort who turns a day's worth of rambling into a small comic epic. He jousts with a tailor over a defective suit: "The sleeves suffer from an objectionable surfeit of length, and the waistcoat is eminently distinguished in that it creates the impression and evokes the unpleasant semblance of my being the bearer of a fat stomach." His adventures are many, but nightfall...
...literature: "If you focus in on Homeric poetry, one of the oldest forms of poetry in Greece, what you really have is the survival of the fittest, to put it cruelly. And you ask yourself, why did the Illiad and the Odyssey survive, and why did they become the epic for the Greek city-states. What was in them that made them such a universal expression of what it means to be Greek as opposed to barbarian. They are an expression of what it means to be educated, what it means to be wise. To us, they are narratives...
Even better is Kumagai Jinya (Kuma-gai's Camp), a work of epic sweep. Set during the wars of the 12th century, it relates the terrible dilemma of General Kumagai, who must kill his own son to spare the life of an enemy whose mother had helped him long ago. Playing the general, Kanzaburo is a figure of universal, tragic stature who is shattered by his act. An accomplished, versatile actor, Kanzaburo also displays a sly comedic sense as the errant husband in Migawari-zazen...