Word: epicent
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Those We Lost in 2008 You describe the late Charlton Heston as a "figure of epic contradictions," citing his marching with Martin Luther King Jr. in the '60s and his leading the National Rifle Association in the '90s [Dec. 29]. I fail to see any contradiction. The man consistently fought in important and not entirely risk-free ways for the rights and dignity of individuals. John Loosemore, Hancock, Mich...
...deployment to Iraq was cancelled after militants pledged to kill the prince. Instead, Harry stayed at home while his fellow soldiers headed into combat wearing T-shirts that read, "I'm Harry" - a reference to the "I'm Spartacus" scene in the swords-and-sandals epic...
...availability. The citrus salsa, Kessel said, is in season during the winter months. “We really do want to teach people about food,” said Kessel, who also noted that HUDS chefs use student comment to develop the dining hall menus. “The epic response to this class kind of shows the interest,” said FLP Representative for the freshman class Maya S. Sugarman ’12. Slots for the class were taken within 10 minutes of the invitation e-mail being sent out to the Freshman class, Sugarman said...
...Film Festival; it received infectiously enthusiastic reviews from the critics; and, most important, it boasts an emotional energy that lifts moviegoers out of their seats, making them eager to tell their friends about the experience. Slumdog is not a standard indie film: glum, poky, wee. It's a sprawling epic, saturated in melodrama and romance, and capped by a big, Bollywood-style production number. People aren't seeing the movie as homework; they're seeing it because they've heard it's something that Hollywood too rarely gives them: a film they can fall in love with...
...Ichikawa, 93, directed some of the finest Japanese films of the '50s: the war parable Fires on the Plain, the pacifist The Burmese Harp, the kinky, contemplative Odd Obsession. His most enthralling epic is Tokyo Olympiad, a record of the 1964 Olympics that stands with Leni Riefenstahl's Olympia as the great art-reportage of the summer games Xie Jin, 84, a preeminent director in Mao's China, is best known for Two Stage Sisters, an assured melodrama about a country girl who joins a rep company. During the Cultural Revolution the film was charged with advocating "the reconciliation...