Word: epical
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...summer, becomes a political blogger, and eventually publishes a book. Mark spends most of the novel in Syracuse writing his dissertation on a minor figure of the 1917 Russian Revolution. Sam ends up visiting Israel and the occupied territories after failing in his attempt to write the Zionist epic and then getting fed up with his job as a temp at a bank.However, the novel is burdened by a sense that nothing happens. It stagnates because the characters just aren’t truly relatable and can’t evoke sympathy. They are all narrow variations of the same...
...centerpiece of the show, both physically and metaphorically, is a pair of epic paintings, The Second of May and The Third of May. The latter, focusing on a white-shirted guerrilla with his arms stretched out in terror before a firing squad of French soldiers, is a classic of anti-war iconography, often interpreted as a 19th century take on the biblical theme of the slaughter of the innocents. The painting has been displayed before alongside The Second of May, a depiction of the previous day's battle, in which Spanish militias viciously attacked Napoleon's Mameluke soldiers...
...confirmed Heston's status as epic hero; it won 11 Oscars (including one for Heston as Best Actor). Truth to tell, Ben-Hur was long and logy, but it got the actor his finest role in his best film. El Cid is up there with Lawrence of Arabia in the epic empyrean: passionate, eloquent, with a visual and emotional grandeur. As the 11th century soldier seeking peace with Spain's large Muslim minority, Heston gave heroic heft to a pacifist warrior. At the end, the Cid, close to death, orders that his body be strapped to his horse and carried...
...epic form waned, Heston found new life as the ultimate loner, the only human among mutant species, in Planet of the Apes and The Omega Man. "Damn you all to hell!" he cried in Planet, as if he were Moses smashing the commandments, enraged by the weakness of humanity...
...places Democrats could hunker down for a long fight in their epic 50-state scramble for the presidential nomination, Pennsylvania is perhaps the most illuminating. Politically speaking, when Pennsylvania gets the sniffles, America braces for a fever...