Word: sagas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This is the adamantly delirious saga of Queen Christina of Sweden, a role once played by Garbo and now fallen, thanklessly, to Ullmann. She is wise enough not to try to capture Garbo's regal mystery. Ullmann instead goes after Christina's hobbled psyche and knotted libido. The script, however, does not necessarily move in the same direction as the leading actress. Indeed, it gives her very little to go on at all. Scenarist Ruth Wolff furnishes Christina with a mother who twists heads off dolls and recommends the presence of a dwarf during pregnancy. Christina...
...fact, Franklin's shocking saga of mistakes and mismanagement had caused fears that the nation's banking system was shaky and that lack of public confidence might lead to a run on many banks. The end came surgically, as U.S. Comptroller of the Currency James Smith declared that Franklin, once the 20th largest of the nation's more than 14,000 banks, was insolvent...
Renaming the nether parts of his characters after the Supreme Court Justices who voted to allow communities to set their own pornography standards is one of Gore Vidal's gentler touches in Book II of the Breckinridge saga. It is an invidiously amusing camp fantasy which seems to have been inspired in equal parts by Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking Glass and Claude Rains' Mr. Jordan movies...
Alas, the moral of both my dream and this national saga is that there are no bannisters in ivory towers. Cambridge academics have turned a cold stare on the flight of this sport, and thus in the vestibules of academe--where bannister-sliding should indeed have flourished--students trudge on from class to class. The more optimistic hoped at the beginning of the decade that in this university--where great minds had already solved the Konigsberg Bridge problem and Zeno's Paradox--scholars might by now have found a way to slide up bannisters. But no, with the steady evolution...
...circuiting the constitutional process and of avoiding the setting of a dangerous precedent," said one Nixon aide. Nixon proposed that he take his case once more to the people in a last-ditch television appeal, thought about it, then rejected his own idea. As so often in the Watergate saga, his perception was poor, almost disconnected from reality: he was not at all certain that the effect of the newest tape disclosure would be that fatal. He ordered his aides to draft a statement to accompany the release of the transcripts. He would take his chances with the result. Price...