Word: saga
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...SWEETMEAT SAGA by C.F. Gravenson. 241 pages. Ouferbndge & Diensffrey...
...profits of his immensely successful Dirty Dozen, probably because no studio would put up the money; MGM finally distributed the movie-but Lylah died a quick critical and box-office death, thereby insuring its banishment to quadruple bill drive-ins during leap years. It's a shame, for this saga of Hollywood is one of the most personal and intriguing American films of the past three years...
...First Churchills, a lusty historical chronicle of Restoration England, is the BBC's successor to The Forsyte Saga. Donald Wilson is again the writer-producer and Susan Hampshire the star. She plays Sarah Churchill, who, she concluded after researching through some 25 books, was "the most important woman in England who hasn't been Queen." The hero, John Churchill (John Neville), an estimable court counselor and the military strategist behind the victory at Blenheim, became the first Duke of Marlborough. (The late Sir Winston was his direct descendant.) The performances are marked by uncommon grace and gusto...
Hutto's civilian defense attorney, Edward Magill, argued that his client had "thought that the Army would only give him legal orders," hence he was not guilty of assault with intent to kill. Colonel Kenneth Howard, the trial judge, set one milepost in the My Lai saga by declaring that a superior's directive to kill unarmed civilians was "illegal."* But, Howard said in his charge to the jury of six officers, the question really came down to the accused's ability to decide for himself whether the order was illegal. In two hours, the six combat...
...Thirty years after the Battle of Britain, enemy pilots see each other as blips on radarscopes, and they do not tip their caps. Yet some things have not changed, certainly not for the better. The villains of Townsend's book are the villains of the most modern war saga: politicians...