Word: sagas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...size of the ape man's brain and his intelligence. Unfortunately, the skull did not increase as fast as the brain, and the resulting pressure distorted man's view of himself as a part of nature. The squeezed-brain syndrome gave rise to man's Faustian saga in which cannibalism became the way to knowledge and power...
Other producers have put their millions into reviving the time-honored disaster-film-subcategory-pestilence. In addition to Phase IV, the saga of the marching ants, Paramount will present The Haephestus Plague, a double whammy in which another earthquake disgorges thousands of carbon-munching giant cockroaches from the bowels of the earth. "We are breeding and training real South American bugs," says Producer William Castle. Reminded, perhaps, of the "feelies" of Huxley's Brave New World-in which audiences were electronically tuned in to experience the physical impact of every love scene and head-bonking shown on the screen...
...ashes from the holocaust and Shootout in Los Angeles had barely cooled last week when law authorities declared that they finally had the answers to two of the most persistent questions about the Patty Hearst saga. They were convinced that the newspaper heiress had really been kidnaped by the Symbionese Liberation Army on Feb. 4 rather than taken part in an elaborate ruse to join old friends. But they were also persuaded that Patty had since joined the cause of the shattered S.L.A. and become a terrorist herself...
...Crone pro-ball saga began February 4, 1973, when the St. Louis Cardinals of the NFL drafted the ex-Harvard quarterback in the 17th round. Crone stayed with the team, until September 15. He was the last person cut before the regular season began...
...strange saga of Patricia Hearst has created an uncommonly tough, unpredictable assignment for San Francisco Bureau Chief Joseph Boyce and Correspondent John Austin. Boyce, who joined TIME in 1970 after four years as a reporter with the Chicago Tribune, says that the story "has been the most difficult one to cover in my eight years in journalism." Austin, who has covered Capitol Hill and President Nixon's 1968 campaign for TIME, concurs...