Word: sagaing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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That is precisely the sort of song -- raw and nasty, full of bluff brimstone -- that never made it into the carnal candy land evoked by the 1987 movie Dirty Dancing. The shrewdly calculated saga of a girl's coming of age in 1963, the film Dirty Dancing is responsible more than anything else for this new slew of what might be called pube rock. The movie was so perfect a young teen dream, it became almost poignant. You had to see it to believe it, and many did. Dirty Dancing pulled in $65 million at the box office...
...saga of T.K. the handicapper began when she was the trainer for women's soccer. "It started when [former soccer player] Kelly Landry would ask me how we were going to do," T.K. says. "Then I'd look at the stats. After the second year, I started making prediction scores. I just went on from there...
...Bingham saga spans several generations, but Barry Sr. and his wife dominate the pages. Mary, a Southern girl poor in finances but rich in snobbish pretense, met Barry when they were students at Radcliffe and Harvard. She saw in him the perfect Kentucky gentleman who could make her dreams of genteel grandeur come true. "Like Barry," Brenner writes, "she . . . had grown up with the same hard lessons of vanquished pride, the specter of Civil War memorials, geriatric veterans invited for Sunday dinner, and the endless parades of cripples . . . celebrating another battle of the Lost Cause...
...motel. ABC-TV reported that the allegations had been made by the Rev. Marvin Gorman, yet another televangelist who was defrocked by the Assemblies of God in 1986 for what one church official called "immorality." Gorman had accused Swaggart of spreading rumors that cost him his reputation. The sad saga of sin and stone casting among the preachers seems far from over...
...fact, it has become extremely difficult. The Crimson has played seven games on the Ivy League calendar, and of those, five have gone into overtime. The latest overtime saga was written Sunday afternoon, when the Crimson took a 2-1 decision from Cornell in Ithaca...