Word: epicent
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...Sims, people told stories about their private lives. Spore should lend itself to very different kinds of narratives. "I think Spore is going to be closer to Tolkien or Lucas or Kubrick," Wright says, "in terms of these very epic stories about the meaning of life and its destination." What's interesting about Wright is that he doesn't have to be Tolkien or Lucas or Kubrick. He wants you to be. "I'm a little different from a lot of other game designers in that I'm never interested in trying to tell a story," he explains...
...happens that these three films found Miyazaki in an epic mode; their multilayered plots, teeming cast of characters and considerable length (each running at least two hours) made them more daunting than embraceable to many viewers. But back in the '80s the filmmaker contented himself with kids' movies that were both simple and sophisticated. Laputa: Castle in the Sky, about a pair of orphans in pursuit of a floating island; My Neighbor Totoro, where two girl meet forest spirits more domesticated than the ones in Princess Mononoke; and Kiki's Delivery Service, with a 13-year-old witch starting...
...occupying Nazis, Jan is sympathetic. But he does not take a stand with the man who has been his friend and mentor. He is, in effect, the heir to "The Good Soldier Schweik," anti-hero of the classic novel by Jaroslav Hasek, which is the Czech anti-epic...
...While the country's corporate sector is in better shape than it was in the 1990s after an epic property bubble burst, some things never change. Unlike in the 1990s, a lack of proactive government policy threatens to make the situation worse for ordinary Japanese. Contrast the Japanese government's inaction in the face of recession with the steps the U.S. has taken in the past nine months, among them a series of interest-rate cuts and tax rebates. No wonder the Japanese public exhibits so little confidence in the administration of Yasuo Fukuda, whose approval ratings bottomed...
...Sunday's gold medal match. Their respective fans were whipped into states of shared hysteria and the Chinese joined in, just for the fun of it. Though relations between Washington and Moscow are worse than they have been in two decades, the atmosphere wasn't as tense as the epic U.S.-Soviet Olympic encounters of old. It just seemed that...