Word: sagaing
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Leave it to the Indians to take the congested saga of ?I Married a Dead Man? - distressed young woman, fatal train wreck, her deception of a loving adoptive family, extortion by the old beau - and pack it with three times the plot, plus songs. Since the movie is both fabulous and obscure, I?ll spell out what happens. This may take a while...
...gossipy feel of Dogeaters, and its two story lines never manage to cohere. Although Hagedorn is clearly engaged with the effect of Spanish and American colonialism on her homeland, the reader wonders about her motive in basing the book on these two historical episodes. In the Philippines, the Tasaday saga is largely remembered for the international publicity?and later embarrassment?it wrought. Apocalypse Now was the next watershed of attention from abroad. Perhaps Hagedorn believes that foreign readers?she left the Philippines in 1962 and now lives in New York?need such recognizable signposts to navigate a work of Philippine...
...past helps us take a break from the harshness of present-day life and travel back in time. Anyone who tries to downplay the theft or destruction of cultural artifacts is seriously misguided. Those who are involved in this heinous business must be severely punished. Antiquities reveal the saga of a bygone era. Arvind K. Pandey Allahabad, India...
...better," spears cheerfully announces, swatting away the hair curler dangling down her brow as a stylist and a makeup artist knock elbows trying to get at her head. It's Monday, Nov. 10, and she's back in a New York City hotel - the very one where this global saga began - preparing for tonight's crucial album-launching showcase on MTV's Total Request Live. And she does appear to be her perky old self again, if not entirely recovered. Her nose is a little stuffy and her eyes slightly watery, but after a week in her mom's care...
...saga was a national sensation, laced with anti-Semitism, demagoguery and racism. Oney's account, backed by 17 years of research, is the most comprehensive and detailed yet. The book teems with fresh information, notably about the identities and later careers of the lynchers. The most poignant of its gallery of portraits is of anguished lawyer William Smith, whose black, lowlife client was Frank's chief accuser but who, Smith decided, was probably the murderer. If, in its exhaustive thoroughness, Oney's narrative meanders, it does so like a vast river: cumulatively it moves with a steady, somber power...