Word: sagas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Kaiser's trip to Washington was a saga in itself. When the train that he was supposed to take pulled out of the Los Angeles Union Station, he was just starting to broadcast a Labor Day message from the Beverly Hills Hotel, taking his cargo-plane visions right to the people...
Life With Father. Amusing saga of the brownstone-front era, celebrating Clarence Day's father and everybody's family (TIME...
...this quality that makes The Raft much more than another saga of human heroism of which there will be many before World War II ends. The special quality of this book is that it restores and documents by deed something that has long been lacking from men's books and minds - a sense of the therapeutic goodness of the unflagging will to live...
...mean regionalist himself, chesty, 33-year-old Reader Derleth, who writes 500,000 words a year, has only 40-odd volumes to go before completing his Sac Prairie Saga in progress...
Ostensibly the saga of honest vs. ruthless salvage-masters off the treacherous Florida Keys of a century ago, the film is actually just a vehicle for every trick of camera and color, every bluff of gargantuan settings, every cliche of plot and dialogue in DeMille's too familiar repertoire. "Reap the Wild Wind" lacks even the barest spark of originality; it is slow, sticky and indescribably dull. Its possibilities as melodrama are almost completely submerged in an orgy of gross spectacle...