Word: epical
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...This is epic English in an awkward way. Doctorow's skill nearly carries it off, but it is a charade. Like his subject, it shows more form than content: mystical images without context, crackling plot without mystery. He manipulated us with Ragtime, made us believe what we saw. In reality, Doctorow is just another Houdini, a conjurer of words...
...exploration of the Cambridge episode reveals the secret, morally reckless side that the monk would later say "demands a whole life of penance." What distinguishes Merton, however, is more than the detailed portrait of his scandal-marred youth. The monk lived more than two decades after his early epic, and he died quite a different man from the one he first described. Furlong provides what Thomas Merton himself only partly disclosed in later works: a chart of the pilgrim's progress toward maturity. His dark night of the soul was a long, arid season. Fame was no solace...
...fearful that imports would cut heavily into domestic sales figures. Both Deep Purple's Live in Japan and Bob Marley & the Wailers Live earned domestic release as a result of their enormous import popularity. Cheap Trick's Live at Budokan was Jem's fastest-selling import earlier this year. Epic took heed, rushing a domestic release that finally established the band's long-predicted stardom...
...sold 25-30,000 of At Budokan in 26 months and that was selling for $12-$15 in stores," reports Say. "Epic wasn't planning to put it out here but it got so huge they had no alternative...
Twice in the movie, Conrad picks up a paperback copy of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, inviting unwelcome comparisons with a more successful American epic, in which Hunter Thompson makes as much sense as you could of the heart disease in the thorax of the American Dream. There is little of Fear and Loathing in Ordinary People, only a bizarre hope of salvation through psychiatry and a blissfully naive belief in the power of love. Clearly, something is really wrong, not only in Lake Forest, Ill., but in America. Yet nobody seems to know exactly what it is that...