Word: epicent
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...Every star of the '50s was obliged to do Westerns, and Widmark had an undemonstrative manliness that let him ride tall in the saddle. He's terrific partnering with Jimmy Stewart in John Ford's Two Rode Together and as Jim Bowie in John Wayne's epic The Alamo. But, again proving his talent too restless to be confined to one character type, or one genre, Widmark played the idiot Dauphin in Otto Preminger's Saint Joan - a kind of sacred-fool version of Tommy...
Best known for the romantic World War II epic Captain Corelli's Mandolin, which has sold more than 3 million copies in the U.K. alone, De Bernières in A Partisan's Daughter departs from what he describes as his usual "complicated, Latinate" writing style. He allows Roza and Chris to alternate in telling their stories, using their own raw and candid language. As a result, the novel reads like a memoir, which is fitting since De Bernières says Roza is the literary incarnation of a Serbian housemate he lived with in the late '70s. "When...
Three members of the Persian community spoke about the diverse elements of Persian culture from their experiences in the Baha’i faith and living in Iran and Kyrgyzstan. Two graduate students read portions of the Shahnameh, an epic Iranian poem, in Persian...
...Stephen Hildreth, an expert in missile defense for the Congressional Research Service, addressing the same hearing of the House government reform committee's national-security panel, emphasized the epic technological challenge involved in building a nuclear-tipped, ocean-spanning missile. In the past half-century, only five nations - the U.S., Britain, China, France and Russia - have managed to successfully develop, and then integrate, the requisite propulsion, guidance, reentry and warhead systems. "The long history of ICBMs demonstrates that such success took considerable resources in time, funding, knowledge, infrastructure, organization and national commitment," Hildreth said. "It's this aspect...
...director who wrote dialog that was a joy to speak and then put it onto the screen in a way that always looked effortless," Law said in a statement. "He made work feel like fun." Law and Minghella also worked together on another adaptation, 2003's American Civil War epic Cold Mountain and Minghella's last big-screen feature Breaking and Entering, released...