Word: saga
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Hanta Yo, billed as an American saga, is really the tale of one man, Ahbleza. Although the book traces Ahbleza's grandfather's and father's lives before him, it is clear from the outset that the father, who surpasses the grandfather, will have a son who will outshine them both...
Unfortunately for those who see the Silkwood saga as a puzzling mystery story, the current trial has been so narrowed that it may not answer some of the most perplexing questions of the case. It will not try to resolve whether Silkwood was so tranquilized by pills to calm a nervous stomach, as Oklahoma state police contend, that she ran off the left side of the highway. It will not decide whether, as a union investigation claims, the fresh marks on her car's rear bumper were evidence that she had been forced off the road...
...week that Roots II aired, ABC had the top eleven shows in the country, with Mork & Mindy scoring higher even than the Haley saga. On an ordinary week during a nonsweeps month, it has six of the top ten shows: besides Mork & Mindy, there are Laverne & Shirley, Three's Company, Eight Is Enough, Charlie's Angels, Happy Days and Taxi. CBS usually struggles through with three in the top ten: All in the Family, M*A*S*H and 60 Minutes. NBC has only one, Little House on the Prairie...
After the revolution, another struggle for power. That this would be the next chapter in Iran's political saga grew ever more possible last week as the country's new leaders struggled to consolidate their tenuous control over their chaotic land. In many ways, the immediate challenge facing the regime headed by Prime Minister Mehdi Bazargan was reflected at a rally staged at the Tehran University soccer stadium by disgruntled leftist groups that want a bigger voice in the post-Shah government than they have so far been allowed. Under the banner of the Marxist fedayeen, an overflow...
Fayer's situation is typical of the season's sad saga...