Word: epics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Roitschwantz is a poor Jewish tailor in Homel, a deeply confused little town in Russia during the confusing early years of the Revolution. His only asset is an epic garrulity and a wild Talmudic talent for splitting the wrong hair. His only crime is. he confesses, "the fact that I am alive"-although he explains in a frenzied bout of surrealist logic that he is not exactly responsible for that. Reading his fabulous and farcical misadventures is an experience like being cornered by a compulsive talker whose merciless spate of words first glazes the eye until a thread of rewarding...
...California-born U.S. citizen. Her husband was the son of an Argentine who took part in the gold rush-a tie that later pulled Che's grandparents back to Argentina. *The legendary Gaucho hero of a famed Argentine epic poem-roughly equivalent to Daniel Boone. -Arriving in Havana last week with his violently anti-U.S. wife Vilma, herself a veteran of fighting in the Sierra Maestra...
Ping Pong Percussion (Chuck Sagle and his Orchestra; Epic). Bandleader Sagle has a lot of fun with timbales. tamtams, glockenspiels, marimbas, etc., in a record clearly pitched to the neophyte stereo addict. For the most part, the fun is more in the studio than in the speaker, but in some of the more fanciful numbers -Make Love to Me, High Society-the band crackles with a kind of auditory wit that suggests Spike Jones gone highbrow...
Wild River (20th Century-Fox). The story of the Tennessee Valley Authority is an epic in search of a poet. It has not found him in Elia Kazan, who produced and directed this picture, but it has found at least a man who can experience the elemental tensions of the tale-public against private interest, mule-team against machine society-and can extricate them from a script that smells less of the river than it does of the paste...
...John Huston, whose Treasure of the Sierra Madre is one of the best westerns ever made, and it was shot from a script by Ben (The Asphalt Jungle) Maddow that seizes a timely and heroic theme, the struggle between human feeling and race prejudice, and develops it in epic rhythms and with epic force...