Word: sagaing
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Still, the movies keep trying-especially after the success of the Star Wars saga, which has comic-adventure roots. Two big-budget Christmas releases illustrate the perils and pleasures of going to popular culture's sub-basement in search of material. Flash Gordon, which expensive but unpretentious, works; Popeye, which reflects the critical and sociological chat about comics in recent years, does not. Indeed, it is one of the most grievously miscalculated movies in recent memory, claustrophobic in manner, mean in spirit, downright grotesque to look...
Famous author and future Pope also share family ties; Toomey's sister was once married to Campanati's brother. French, English, Italian and American blood mix in this distended family saga. Blood also flows in the trenches of World War I, the alleys of Prohibition Chicago, the death camps of Nazi Germany, the bush of contemporary revolutionary Africa...
...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...