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Word: sagas (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...best-known movie performances, Susan Sarandon scored as Brooke Shields' momma in Pretty Baby, a saga about a New Orleans house of you know what. Momma, who is 30, has pretty good gams herself. In her latest movie, Something Short of Paradise, Sarandon plays a feminist writer who wants love and security but not necessarily the marriage commitment that her partner, David Steinberg, insists on. Says Sarandon: "It's a pretty modern love story, which means everyone is fairly confused." In any case, the best shots of her are thigh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Sep. 17, 1979 | 9/17/1979 | See Source »

...wish Jimmy Carter could have read your story on leadership [Aug. 6] aloud on his Sunday TV talk after returning from the mountain, instead of giving us that "peanut butter and jelly" saga...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 27, 1979 | 8/27/1979 | See Source »

...sharpening interest in the war. Novels such as The Boys from Brazil, The Eagle Has Landed and Soldier of Orange have found their way into the movies, and Ken Follett's Eye of the Needle is about to-even as he puts together yet another World War II saga. If World War II films have naturally been less numerous than books, they have also-ever since George C. Scott swaggered across the screen in Patton in 1970-tended to be more spectacular and ambitious. TV is cluttered with World War II documentaries and dramas, ranging from the recent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: W.W. II: Present and Much Accounted For | 8/27/1979 | See Source »

Conquering cinemaspace is getting to be old hat for Christopher Reeve. Hanging his cape in the telephone booth temporarily between Superman and the upcoming Superman II, Reeve does it again as an ordinary playwright in a romantic saga called Somewhere in Time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Aug. 6, 1979 | 8/6/1979 | See Source »

Mirabell: Books of Number takes what began as a baroque saga and amplifies it to an epic. The new book again offers Merrill, Jackson and a Ouija board. The place is their house in Stonington, Conn., the time the summer of 1976. Ephraim reappears, although vastly overshadowed by the band of dark creatures urgently seeking the poet's attention. They are the fallen angels, now reduced to minding the machinery set in motion by God, whom they call Biology. As the enspirited cup moves among the capital letters on the Ouija board, their plea is spelled out: FIND...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Four Poets and Their Songs | 6/25/1979 | See Source »

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