Word: sagas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...late 19th century. Singing families developed their own repertories of music and comedy. Two young New Yorkers, David Chambers and Mel Marvin, have researched the tradition of such troupes, studied their sheet music, old newspaper clippings, family photographs and journals, and distilled them into a modest Midwestern saga...
...total result is that we know more about Faulkner than we can justify by healthy curiosity: reading this biography with relish would be like watching more than one episode of the PBS saga of the Loud family...
...task of establishing himself as both a hot commercial property and an authentic voice. Being black, blind and up from poverty entitles him, of course, to say that he has been there and back. A near-fatal auto accident outside Winston-Salem, N.C., last August has threatened to turn saga into legend. Stevie was riding in the front seat of his car when a log tore loose from a truck, crashed through the windshield and struck him in the forehead. He was pried from the wreck bloody and unconscious, and lay in a coma for a week. Friends knew that...
...film is a variation on the Connecticut Yankee saga. An exterminator enters a vortex, precipitating the events of the movie. The great problem of the immortals is boredom. Boredom is a problem which seems only to get worse, and the entrance of the intruder, excellently played by Sean Connery, promises a rare amusement. Lately, an epidemic has swept through the population, leaving its victims--called "apathetics"--looking like rag dolls. The expression of bemused revulsion on Connery's face when the apathetics, dramatically geritolized by the sweat on his body, paw him with open lust, is a high point...
...After that Hašek was drafted into the Austro-Hungarian army. He deserted to the Russians, converted to Bolshevism and became a commissar. Later, he gave up the Party and drifted back to Prague. There, as he slowly died of drink and TB, Hašek wrote the saga of the good soldier Švejk...