Word: sagaing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...many slow moments. The musician also does double duty as a backdrop against which Luba can bounce her seemingly endless monologues. She rushes on in a black negligee to prepare for the arrival of her date; but as he is late she passes the time by relating the saga of her life. Since the play ends with the date's arrival, I would say that Lady's overall message is a plea for punctuality...
...silver screen, and the two principal characters, Renato/Zaza (Ugo Tognazzi), the transvestite star of the Cage aux Folles cabaret, and Albin (Michel Serrault), the manager of the St. Tropez nightclub, are still being played by the original actors. Naturally, Zaza and Baldi have aged a little bit since the saga began--they mostly go by the names "Mammi" and "Pappi" as a concession to the passing of time...
...sets, particularly in the second act, underline the comic-book nature of this zany saga. In Technicolor orange and black, Solong has become a blazing, windswept, oil-spattered wasteland of a desert, worthy of Sam Shepard. Designer David Sumner has done an equally masterful job with the romantic starry skies and the eastern spires of the sultan's estate...
...CURRENT STATE of affairs reminds one of nothing so much as the Red Sox saga of a decade ago. In 1975, the Sox surprised the nation by fighting their way to the World Series, where Boston let slip away the most dramatic Series in the history of the game...
Able to walk the fine line between a bland documentary and an overdone "epic saga," Kusturica tells the story of a Sarajevo family's struggle during the consolidation of the Yugoslavian state under Tito. The story is told in part through the eyes of Malik, the son of an aspiring Communist Party officer. Malik's Father's "business trip" (as a forced laborer) begins when a political cartoon appears in the party newspaper. The cartoon shows Karl Marx writing at a desk, with a picture of Tito on the wall behind him. Father--known as Mesa in the film--mentions...