Word: sagaing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...with so many countries born in the past 40 years, Syria's modern history has been a saga of coups and countercoups. In 1958 Egypt's President Gamal Abdel Nasser merged his country with Syria to form the United Arab Republic, but the union lasted only 3½ years. In 1963 the Arab Socialist Resurrection (or Baath) Party overthrew President Nazem Koudsi and seized power in Damascus...
...could you possibly have allowed the use of the Crimson Building for the filming of the TV movie with Melissa Sue Anderson? This simple-minded saga of a girl going gaga over an older man married to her Expos teacher is extremely demeaning to women and particularly offensive and stereotypical about women at Harvard. According to this film, they spend all their time in French restaurants plotting how to get men. And describing how good-looking they...
...Godfatherhood: an operatic overview of the nation's immigrant black princes, a meticulous dissection of the relationship between crime and Big Business, a celebration of the American power ethic, a warning against corporal or corporate abuse. But Scarface lacks the generational sweep and moral ambiguity of the Corleone saga. At the end, Tony is as he was at the beginning: his development and degeneration are horrifyingly predictable; his death evokes not fear or pity, but numb relief...
...Saga of Baby Divine, Midler
Cruise's latest film All the Right Moves--the saga of Stefan Djordjevic's attempt to work his way out of poverty through high-school football--confirms this hope. While All the Right Moves has the potential ingredients of a trash film--the high school setting, the football pep rallies, the steamy sex scenes--it is clearly more than an insipid adolescent anatomy lesson. In fact, because so much of the film deals with larger, more universal themes than the Ampipe High School Bulldogs' unsuccessful attempts to "kick the other team's ass," All the Right Moves has little trouble...