Word: epics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...STAPLE SINGERS: AMEN! (Epic). The Staple family-Roebuck, his son Purvis, Daughters Mavis and Cleotha-is one of the liveliest gospel groups around, and they raise the roof with More Than a Hammer and a Nail and He's Got the Whole World in His Hands. But they are entertainers too (their title song, Amen, comes from the movie Lilies of the Field), and they incidentally demonstrate the strong kinship of gospel to rock 'n' roll...
BEETHOVEN: SYMPHONY Nos. 1 and 2 (Epic). Ending at the beginning, George Szell and the Cleveland Orchestra have now recorded all nine Beethoven symphonies. Although he amply unfolds the later more dramatic works, Szell perfectly displays his strongest virtues- exquisite clarity, purity, precision and bright buoyancy- in these early symphonies, still primarily classical in design...
When the psychological turning point of an ambitious epic of business is the moment when the hero refuses to let the corrupt supplier pay for his call girl -by golly, he'll pay his own way-the effect is not only meretricious but laughable...
...Spain today, all the world's a sound stage. The Outlaw of the Red River, with George Montgomery, is now shooting on the banks of the Tagus River. Yacht to Jamaica never left Barcelona. Nor did Horst Buchholz as The Man from Istanbul. Orson Welles's epic of Falstaff, Chimes at Midnight, is packing up in Madrid, but Henry Fonda is just digging in around Segovia for The Battle of the Bulge. And in suburban Madrid, it looks as if Franco lost the Civil War after all: there, in a set ankle-deep in marble-dust snow...
Stevens has outdone himself by producing an austere Christian epic that offers few excitements of any kind. Its sole distinction lies in its contrast to those rambunctiously zealous camp meetings that Cecil B. DeMille used to patch together out of breastplates, flexed muscles and Persian rugs. Greatest Story is a lot less vulgar, though audiences are apt to be intimidated by its pretentious solemnity, which amounts to 3 hours and 41 minutes' worth of impeccable boredom. As for vigorous ideas, there are none that would seem new to a beginners' class in Bible study...