Word: epicent
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...original format. Thanks to the expert direction of Ron Howard, and brilliant performances from its cast, “Frost/Nixon” accomplishes this task admirably. The best of cinema is combined with the best of the stage to produce a rare hybrid—an epic battle of human proportions...
...Tain” by the Decemberists. These Portland, Ore. indie rockers recently created an 18-minute music video for their 2004 single based on the ancient Irish epic, The Táin Bó Cúailnge (or “The Cattle Raid of Cooley”). The animation can’t quite capture the sheer ridiculousness of the story, but it does a pretty good job, particularly when it comes to the feats of the story’s hero, Cúchulainn, who’s a BAMF if ever there was one. 2. Fleet Foxes. The album...
...what I love? It’s a position I don’t want to be in.”While OCS attempts to prepare students professionally, the Culinary Society tries to provide adequate recreational resources on campus. “Trying to do everything would end in epic failure,” Rinzler says. “We can be very good about promoting people’s passion and interest in food on very small, pocket, individual scales. But for an issue as all-encompassing as food literacy, I don’t think any student organization...
...terms of encouraging a certain promiscuity of taste,” Zwick said. “In the repertory theater one does Shakespeare one day and Sam Shepherd the next. And the idea that I might be interested in more intimate human drama and at the same time more epic and theatrical pieces I think is a legacy of that.” His new film “Defiance,” about Jewish resistance during the Holocaust, combines Zwick’s dual interest in epic storytelling and intimate human drama. The film documents the amazing true story...
...National Poet, Lewis has returned to university life as a Radcliffe Institute Fellow to continue her education as a poet, non-fiction writer, and thinker. Lewis, who studied as a graduate student at Harvard from 1982-1983, originally wanted to return to the University to work on an epic poem titled “A Hospital Odyssey.” But she found herself embarking upon her position as the Mildred Londa Weisman Fellow having unexpectedly completed most of the work on the poem.“I confessed all to the Radcliffe people and they didn?...