Word: sagaing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Mutual traditions of gentility have often provided a bond between Southerners and the British. So no one should gape if the role of a Southern belle seems to fit Lesley-Anne Down better than a custom-made bodice. In the 12-hr. pre- Civil War saga North and South, scheduled to air on ABC in early November, British-born Down, 31, plays the refined daughter of a Louisiana Frenchman who marries a man she does not love. "He turns out to be a fiend," says Down, who draws no parallels to her ongoing real-life divorce from Director William Friedkin...
When Steve Jobs resigned as chairman of Apple Computer two weeks ago, it seemed the final act in a stormy corporate drama. But the saga continues. Jobs had enraged Apple's board of directors by starting a rival computer firm and luring five company employees, including senior engineers and marketers, to join him. Jobs' new venture, to be called Next, Inc., is expected to compete directly in Apple's core educational market. Last week Apple lashed back, filing suit against Jobs in Santa Clara County's superior court. The computer company (1984 sales: $1.5 billion) charged that Jobs had "secretly...
...ZEPPELIN SAGA, Davis...
...raid after another and in the process reshaped the American oil industry. He used Mesa as a vehicle to buy huge chunks of such companies as Cities Service, Gulf and Phillips, then sold the stock to other bidders at premium prices. Last week Pickens moved to end the Mesa saga. In December, shareholders will be asked to convert the company from a public corporation into a limited partnership. After that move, Mesa is not expected to make any further takeover attempts...
...other like cheerleaders for opposing teams. When the going got really hot, they wound up in a pillow fight. Jessica moved to the U.S. and stuck with the Communist Party until the end of the '50s. In the '60s she became a sudden capitalist success, thanks to her family saga Hons and Rebels and a classic expose of the funeral industry, The American Way of Death...