Word: saga
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...spoil the debut of a rival's series. In the first week of the new season, NBC will present the first of six Laugh-In specials; in the weeks that follow, there will be a four-bout evening of heavyweight boxing, a Doonesbury cartoon special and The Godfather Saga, a nine-hour, four-night extravaganza combining both movies and some outtake footage too. ABC plans a Star Wars show based on the making of the movie, while CBS is preparing a string of shows devoted to its own 50th anniversary...
...Mitford sisters did not exist, Evelyn Waugh would have had to invent them. Their splendid improbability makes his ongoing saga of the decline and fall of the English upper class read like an understatement. Take for instance Nancy Mitford, one of the Mad Young Things of the '20s and a bitter-comic novelist in her own right, who ended up in self-imposed exile in Paris, musing about Louis XIV. Or consider the two fascist Mitfords: Diana, who married Sir Oswald Mosley, Führer of the British Blackshirts, and Unity, a prized exotic of Hitler's inner...
...Harlem and Bedford-Stuyvesant, Chicago's Humboldt Park and Garfield Park, and Miami's Northwest Side-already infamous for poverty and crime and desperation. For most the assignment was profoundly saddening. Says Boston Correspondent Jack White: "I'm sick of singing this same old saga. I wish we could move on to a story that could say how poverty was finally and absolutely purged from the system...
...saga of coastwatching has been swamped by the gross tonnage of war books launched in the past 30 years. Yet, as Lord describes it, vital Pacific island victories were won with the eyes and ears of clandestine observers: ex-planters, Micronesian guides, Australian mavericks, priests and nuns, who provided intelligence essential to understanding the enemy's battle plans...
With the publication of A Division of the Spoils in 1975, English Author Paul Scott completed The Raj Quartet -a four-novel, 2,000-page saga set in India during the sunset of British rule. To the regret of Scott's many devotees, that seemed to be that: the last of the white sahibs and memsahibs taking their bows in a long, engrossing valedictory. Not quite. Staying On offers another look at a locale familiar to readers of The Raj Quartet. This new novel is less a sequel than a graceful comic coda to the earlier song of India...