Word: epicent
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...BOTTOM LINE: That cinematic rarity, an intelligent epic, reanimates one of history's crucial, tragic moments...
...Lawrence Chamberlain, and the last is Brigadier General Lewis Armistead. They don't embrace all the contortions imposed on the human spirit by the military necessity, but they'll do for a potent, dramatic start. And their existence as well-drawn figures amid the hubbub of a four-hour epic speaks well for writer-director Ronald Maxwell's sober intentions and very creditable achievements in this film. Of the three, Martin Sheen's Lee is the most startling. In our folklore (and in the hearts of his troops) the Confederate leader has been granted near saintly status. Sheen gives...
...time of World War I. His cousin is a nun and natural scientist whose correspondence with a German bee expert arouses suspicions that she is a foreign agent. With this lovely bit of linkage, Malouf closes a remarkably original book: a lyric history that is also a national contra-epic...
Still, the winters really are great! And this doom-and-glooming might sound familiar. In 1981, TIME declared crime- and drug-plagued South Florida a "Paradise Lost." The region then embarked on an epic boom. Southeast Florida - including Miami, Fort Lauderdale, West Palm Beach - ballooned into the nation's seventh largest metro, while southwest Florida - Naples, Cape Coral, Fort Myers - became the fastest-growing metro. Last year 82.4 million visitors found their way to this lost paradise. And last month Governor Charlie Crist unveiled a $1.75 billion deal to buy the U.S. Sugar Corp. and its 187,000 acres...
...have money problems; indeed, his campaign is so cash-rich that he reversed himself last month and declared that he will not participate in the public-financing program. He's not struggling in the shadow of an incumbent - rather, he continues to dominate free media coverage long after his epic battle with Clinton has ended. Judging from Obama's light schedule and middle-of-the-road rhetoric in recent weeks, he's looking for less coverage these days, not more...