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...scholarship, based largely on archaeological excavations in Europe, Iceland, Greenland and Canada, has begun to fill in the elusive details. And now the rest of us have a chance to share in those discoveries with the opening last week of a wonderfully rich exhibition titled "Vikings: The North Atlantic Saga" at the National Museum of Natural History in Washington...
Unfortunately for Gates, the saga looks set to continue despite all the recent, promising overtures: The Post story suggests the plan does not quite live up to a proposal Microsoft offered informally prior to U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson's initial ruling against the company. If that opinion is widely held, Microsoft could suffer; any public perception that Microsoft is trying to loosen the noose around its neck will likely be met with widespread ire among consumers - and, perhaps more important, within Judge Penfield Jackson's chambers...
...Hollywood epics like Spartacus and Ben-Hur, which prided themselves on creating the biggest spectacle possible. Sure, those films had stories (Spartacus had a great one, in fact), but even more important was the way in which they took full advantage of cinematic technology in order to make the saga seem literally larger-than-life...
...would be easy to dismiss The Leap as just another self-satisfied saga of risking it all on a dotcom dream. Don't. Ashbrook's tale of how he went from disillusioned newspaperman to co-founder of the home-design empire HomePortfolio.com serves up heavy doses of self-examination and occasional melodrama ("Maybe we don't get to choose our madness"). But it is saved by self-deprecating humor and gut-wrenching suspense (Will the money run out? Will his wife?). By the end, you're praying for this guy to make...
...eyed and opulently creamy. And American popular culture, just emerging from the Eisenhower '50s, had rarely staged such shamelessly excessive scandal. Taylor evicted her husband Eddie Fisher, and Burton cashiered his wife Sybil. Cleopatra and Hamlet fell into each other's boozy, lascivious arms, and set off on a saga of extravagant narcissism that became a celebrity contribution to '60s excess - except that it had no redeeming social value. As the civil rights movement marched, and Vietnam tore America apart, and presidents were assassinated or driven from office, Richard and Elizabeth traveled with retinues, like royalty. They made memorable scenes...