Word: sagaing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...obvious and unoriginal as that, An Officer and a Gentleman still works. The tension and yearnings pent up inside of aspiring Navy pilot Zack Mayo (Richard Gere) are vivid and believable. You may think you're too sophisticated for an underdog-gets-crewcut-and-makes-good saga, but wait until Mayo is face down in the mud, "doin' 50" for that bastard Sergeant Foley. You'll suddenly find you own tightly clenched fist pounding the arm rest with every rep. "Yes SIR! I'd LIKE to do some more push...
...Williams and Yale. His college nickname was Gadge, short for Gadget ("I was small, compact and eccentric"), but there is nothing mechanical in his development of The Anatolian. With humor and affection, as well as a bruised sense of the dark side of immigrant life, he has woven a saga as richly textured as a fine Kirman carpet. Or one of the great old Kazan films, for which The Anatolian would have made fine grist. -By Michael Demarest
...control of the galaxy. Its hero, the vapid Luke Sykwalker, relied on "The Force"--some ESTian kind of energy source--instead of on his own abilities. It is no wonder that the more self-assured rogue, Han Solo (Harrison Ford), emerged as the true hero of the Star Wars saga. But even he was too good to be true...
When this quirky saga of writer-wrestler T.S. Garp first received attention in 1978, critics embraced the life-to-death story as a work which imaginatively blended modern-day issues such as rape and the threatened American family with startlingly fresh humor. But not long after the initially warm reception, some began to find the popular and violent images and story-lines in Garp a little less wonderful. While the book continued to sell rapidly, an inverse reaction occurred in literary circles. The jury went back into session on Irving and produced a revised verdict, charging him with excessive, gratuitous...
...sweeping saga of unrequited love in the Outback was considered by some to be the Australian Gone With the Wind, and for the filmed version, yet another fair Englishwoman walked off with the lead. Rachel Ward, 24 (Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid), is cast as Meggie in The Thorn Birds, a nine-hour ABC-TV "novel for television" based on Colleen McCullough's 1977 bestseller. Richard Chamberlain, 47, plays Meggie's paramour, Man of the Cloth Ralph de Bricassart. Jean Simmons, 53, has the role of her mother Fee, and Barbara Stanwyck, 74, is cast...