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...cloud of confusion (which seems to be the muse in this saga) still hovers over the PBH case--and the cases of the Student Assembly, Women's Clearinghouse, Room 13, Radcliffe Choral Society, and various other groups that have managed to get materials into the packets at one time or another. Law, in her memo to Fox about the problem, epitomizes the atmosphere. "For example," she wrote, "I accepted the Student Assembly this fall because I was told it had been authorized by Dean Epps. (My information was apprently incorrect...
...over 100 million copies of his frontier and western novels are in print. Moreover, he and his publishers have done it without full-page ads or talk-show hype. The latest of his 77 volumes, Lonely on the Mountain, is the 16th episode of the long and winding Sackett saga, tracing the fortunes of a frontier family from the 17th century up to the 1890s...
...week's end even the most jaded of editors had to agree the Cunningham saga was getting out of hand. Bendix public relations men were taking calls offering TV and movie deals for Cunningham's story. Some 60 top executive positions had been offered, Sheehy said, including the directorship of a Harvard Business School study of women in the executive suite. Cunningham was reported to be holed up in Agee's private Idaho hideaway, or walking the beach in California, or at home in Bloomfield, Mich...
Even as he rehashes old jokes and scenes that worked better in his "early comedies," however, Allen introduces another chapter in his saga of the suffering human. He is baffled by public condemnation of his attempts to be serious. He understands the emptiness of unfulfilled expectations better than anyone, yet he refuses to sympathize with members of his audience who clamor for more comedy. With the same twisted reasoning, he thrives on the perks that accompany his celebrity but wants adulation only from a distance. His fame chokes him; he depicts his claustrophobia with several wide-angled tracking shots that...
Then came the saga of John Bailyn. Twice the left wing penetrated the MIT defense and guided the ball into the twines. And twice offsides violations nullified the Bailyn tallies. But the yardling still had a little left. With ten seconds remaining, he streaked down the field on a breakaway, faked right, and beat Seegon on the left side to complete the scoring...