Word: sagaing
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...photo of a suburban slide area in Los Angeles, where earthquake-stricken bungalows teeter on the edge of a muddy chasm at whose bottom lies an upside-down car. The heaven of nature, the hell (or at least purgatory) of black insecurity, both in the same place; a saga of innocence being continuously lost...
Harry Potter fans expecting the sorcery saga's next installment in time for summer vacation next year will have to wait a little while longer. J. K. Rowling's publishers, Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, says there will be no new Harry Potter book ready for the summer, and probably not until sometime in 2002. "Basically the author hasn't finished writing it," Bloomsbury CEO Nigel Newton tells TIME, adding that the production schedule for the next three books "is still to be confirmed...
...BLIND ASSASSIN: Margaret Atwood's novel is part family saga, part social history, part suspense tale and altogether captivating. As its elderly narrator, Iris Chase, looks back on her life - and some mysterious deaths - she evokes not only a tangled past but a luminous fictional realm...
...political climate in the countries he inhabited (Spain and America) made it impossible for him to work again on a personal project. In 1946, Buñuel moved to Mexico, where his work on pedestrian comedies and the great success of his gritty, yet still dreamlike, juvenile delinquent saga "Los Olvidados" (1950) made him a bankable commodity. He proceeded to make a series of torrid melodramas and light comedies that pleased his studio bosses and also allowed him to indulge his sacrilegious imagination...
Post-production is the last edition in this series, where the priority is to "make things happen." Now with music in hand, ready to be mastered and sent off to the duplicators, we enter the final stage in the rock album saga, and, indeed, our final weekly acquaintance as writer and reader...