Word: epicent
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...Revengers Comedies (1989) A man and woman meet on London's Albert Bridge and plot to "exchange" murders. She goes after his hated boss, then expects him to bump off her rival in love. This epic updating of Hitchcock's Strangers on a Train is hampered by its two-play length, but it is Ayckbourn at the very top of his game...
...Tyson's attraction to any biographer is that he carries epic achievements and contradictions within him. At first he was a variation on the proverbial 97-pound weakling: an overweight street kid from the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn. He got beaten up regularly by the local toughs - "Very few of them," he says, "are functioning adults right now" - who lured him into street crime. As a 12-year-old in a detention home he was discovered by Cus d'Amato, who had trained and managed Floyd Patterson to the heavyweight boxing title in the '50s. Cus saw potential...
...course, there were cult movies, and Ballard became best known for those: Steven Spielberg's WW II epic Empire of the Sun and David Cronenberg's adaptation of Crash, the 1996 shock flick that caused a stunned moral panic in Britain 23 years after Ballard's novel was published...
...evening, as the three pieces exuded exuberance, creativity, and triumph, respectively. The first piece—the overture to Mozart’s famous final opera “The Magic Flute”—was a bubbling introduction to a concert that would end with an epic performance of Brahms’ first symphony. The piece was marked by a controlled excitement, as the orchestra was focused and almost on edge, clearly aware of the night’s significance. Balance was a particular strength, as the playful, lilting flute and oboe floated easily on the propulsive...
...reason why the U.S. has so many immigration-policy headaches. And what Obama gave the region this weekend was a reason to think that it could finally set aside its 20th century resentments - which, admittedly, have too often been exploited by Latin leaders as an excuse for their own epic failings and iron fists - and move on to 21st century development. To believe, that is, that the U.S. now appreciates what Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva told TIME in a recent interview - that it's not smart policy for the U.S. to be such a rich...