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...your great literature or cinema has the concept of a windshield wiper in it. That was a little disconcerting. But I did feel like what this man had created had great value to him personally and subsequently made his fight with Ford so personal. It was a pretty epic battle in that sense...
...most popular President in a half-century. The oil find could make Brazil one of the world's largest crude producers, but even without that bounty, the economy has been growing as vigorously as a guava tree in the Amazon rain forest, allowing Brazil to start reducing its epic social inequality. Economic strength has also allowed the country to flex its diplomatic clout as the hemisphere's first real counterweight to the U.S. Lula led the creation of a bloc of developing nations, the G-20, to thwart U.S. and European hegemony in global trade talks. "I believe implicitly that...
That's the case with Miracle at St. Anna, an unwieldy epic that leapfrogs four decades and two continents while trying to cram the undertold history of black soldiers in World War II into a fable of the friendship between an Italian boy and his "chocolate giant." At more than 2 1/2 hours, it's a mess, but it's got battle scenes that thrill and horrify and a brilliantly choreographed slaughter of Italian innocents; the title could have been Massacre at St. Anna...
...press in working order. All four of the printers should be online in the next two weeks (although the 19th century clamshell platen press is too delicate for daily use) and days were spent cleaning the front and back room of the press. It was an epic task that, by all estimates, hasn’t been attempted in 15 years. “The dust was as historic as Harvard,” Sifuentes says. Despite his concerns, Russem is optimistic that the trial run “will not only change how students use type...but how they...
...that the song feels bracing and exuberant. The result is an album whose ferocious commitment to several strains of the metal tradition belies its patent complexity and eagerness to appropriate other musical idioms. “The Unforgiven III” opens with familiar themes of Norse mythology and epic journey: “Set sail to sea, but pulled off course / By the light of golden treasure / How could he know this new dawn’s light / Would change his life forever?” But the string quartet and clutch of trombones that introduce the song...