Word: epical
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reflects his greatest strength: he is a doer rather than a thinker. He is a man of action who learned the operational skills of diplomacy from his mentor in the Nixon Administration, Henry Kissinger, but who basically lacks Kissinger's vision of global strategy. In this sense, his epic shuttle showed him both at his strongest-striving to mediate an explosive confrontation-and at his weakest, because he was not home minding the global aspects of U.S. policy...
...Generation, and from this came a number of rather conventional but polished lyrics. "A poem should be wordless/ As the flight of birds," ran the most celebrated one, "Ars Poetica." "A poem should not mean/ But be." But larger ideas were stirring. MacLeish went to Mexico to write the epic of Cortez, and Conquistador won him a Pulitzer for 1932. But by then there were other demands on his talent...
Such verses prompted some critics to conclude that MacLeish's talent had never been an epic one. "He is, and always has been, poet," an wrote engaging Hilton and often Kramer of the moving lyric New York Times. But MacLeish lived in a time of desperate battles, and it must be said to his credit that when the trumpets sounded, the poet answered...
Much the same might be said about the evening's other surprise winner, Chariots of Fire. Named the year's best picture over such rivals as Warren Beatty's epic Reds and Louis Malle's fascinating Atlantic City, Chariots was also a sentimental favorite, an exhilarating tale of two British runners in the 1924 Olympics. Though Beatty won the award for Best Director, the night clearly belonged to the little, inexpensive movies and, most particularly, to On Golden Pond...
...Canton, Hollywood Veteran Kirk Douglas, 63, found that interest runs high-even in his own old swashbucklers. He screened three of his pictures (Spartacus, Gunfight at the O.K. Corral and Lust for Life) for small but enthusiastic audiences. Douglas also took a meeting with the cast of Teahouse, an epic film currently under production. "Let's not waste any time," said Douglas to Wang Yang, head of the Peking Film Studio. "We have everything we need to make a movie together." The Communist government sees that films with suspect political sentiments or open displays of physical affection wind...