Word: saga
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Middle of the Night. Paddy Chayefsky's highly effective saga about a lonely September widower (Fredric March) and a neurotic May girl (Kim Novak...
...Raisin in the Sun. The troubled saga of a South Side Chicago Negro family...
Snowboard's Saga. That map-or drawings purporting to be the map-has been appearing, disappearing and reappearing ever since. In the 1870s a German prospector, Jacob ("Dutchman") Waltz, called "Snowbeard" by the Indians, killed at least five men in getting his hands on the map. For years afterward, Waltz lived with a quadroon girl in an adobe hut in Phoenix, periodically slipped into the crags of Superstition Mountain to replenish his supply of nuggets...
...identity card, he had only $1 and some small change to propitiate the law. The money to spring him after a night in jail was put up by Author Croswell Bowen. Shane O'Neill's collaborator on the current bestselling The Curse of the Misbegotten, a candid saga of the O'Neill family's tragic, repetitive journey into night...
...gifted amateur actor. Convent-bred Mama was pious, temperamentally capricious, and terribly afraid of making a social gaffe. When the couple engaged in loud-voiced wrangles, little Simone was bitterly disillusioned; parents were not gods, but common clay. At eight, the embryo novelist wrote a woefully sentimental saga about The Misfortunes of Marguerite...