Word: grails
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Holy Blood, Holy Grail, Lincoln, Baigent and Leigh
...most part, it was a quest with challenging goals. Sadat would look for an angle, find one, take action, then move on to the next confrontation. Finally, with the peace initiative, it seemed he had found his Holy Grail. He fought alone, rarely giving ground and sometimes taking too much. Then, they took his life in the hope no one would be so foolhardy as to emulate...
...International Business Machines (1980 sales: $26 billion) into the hot new market for personal computers. Said Garland Asher, director of financial planning for Tandy Corp., one of the leading sellers of the television set-size machines: "Some people were convinced that IBM would be unveiling a new Holy Grail." Last week IBM finally showed off its product. Priced between $1,565 and $6,300, the desktop computer can store documents that once would have required a roomful of filing cabinets; it can also produce graphs in four colors, receive information over phone lines from remote data banks or libraries...
Still, Boorman provides some dazzling images: Uther riding across a sea of dragon's breath: a bizarre scene that crosscuts an act of adultery with the gruesome death of the betrayed husband: Perceval, hanging, nearly dead, as his Other Self reaches for the Holy Grail. Alex Thompson's garish cinematography gives every scene a fantastical fiery glow and Anthony Praff's production design is, by inappropriate turns, marvelous and ridiculous. For instance, most of his medieval castles have a finely detailed primordial look, but his contrast to these palaces, the new and civilized Camelot, is a high-tech Xanadu full...
...pacing remains erratic for the next two hours. Boorman gives us almost the entire legend: young Arthur's gaining Excalibur: Merlin's education of the young king: Arthur's courting of Guenevere: the establishment of Camelot: the love triangle of Arthur. Guenevere, and Lancelot: the search for the Holy Grail: the power struggle between Arthur and his half-brother/son (through incest) Mordred. Alas, the film stumbles between episodes, failing to connect the careful pattern of events coherently. The numerous battle scenes--exciting, if a bit gratuitously gory--always run too long. Even the tone of the film vacilates between...