Word: saga
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...confinement and the constant bickering during the experiment. "We had nothing else to take up our thinking time," she says. Still, she misses the animals and the plants, and the continuing story about trees that she told the children at nighttime around the fire. "It developed into a saga, and now that's gone." The children are less nostalgic. They now refer to the Celtic experience as a "silly time...
...were carefully watching the big illuminated screen that carries the latest stock quotations to the turbulent floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Suddenly there flashed a terse announcement about Columbia Pictures: CPS WILL NOT OPEN FOR TRADING TODAY. Thus last Friday began yet another episode in the unending saga of the troubled moviemaker...
OUTRAGED that the saga of Pippin's life did not end in an egoistic suicide, the players curse Pippin and Catherine and Theo, who stand in the middle of the stage, hand in hand. They remove all the props, the makeup, the costumes, the lights, and leave the trio standing squarely in the center of a bare Shubert stage. Without revealing the finale, as Pippin himself says, "What a way to end a musical comedy...
Eric Porter, who was Soames Forsyte in The Forsyte Saga, re-creates another cuckold as Karenin, Anna's husband...
...young mother, Marie. After her artist lover commits suicide because he cannot provide for the family, she sacrifices all to survive with her two small children, and as her self-confidence grows, finds she can be perfectly content on her own. And there is something, too, in the saga of the feminist groupie, Pomme, although most of her polemical songs and free-spirited antics are pretty silly. But the value of all this lies in its novelty, not in its depth. For in all her feminist enthusiasm, French director Agnes Varda fails to delve beyond the difficult circumstances of these...