Word: sagas
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Over these past two episodes in the 135-year saga of the Cup, Americans had to learn from Australians the infinite possibilities not only of 12-meter boats but of ingenuity itself. Somewhere along the U.S. line, as Enterprise begat Courageous begat Freedom begat Liberty, revolutionary breakthroughs had been luffing. Then, in 1983, influenced by Dutch technology, a child of the Outback named Ben Lexcen devised a winged keel for Australia II that altered everything. Ultimately developing wings of his own, Conner agrees, "It basically was an art before. We're just starting to scratch it into a science...
...SIEGE: THE SAGA OF ISRAEL AND ZIONISM by Conor Cruise O'Brien. The diplomat and journalist gives an informed and balanced account of the long and seemingly endless tragedy of Middle East politics...
...same canny marketing tactics have helped make "Crocodile" Dundee, the saga of an ingenuous Australian crocodile hunter on the loose in Manhattan, the sleeper film of the year. Serendipity alone explains Paramount's decision to buy rights to the film from its producer and star, Paul Hogan, for less than $4 million. But Mancuso and his executives made the crucial choice to release the Australian film as a full-scale commercial effort in 871 theaters, rather than as an art-house sideline. Paramount also shrewdly capitalized on the sunny charm of Hogan, sending him on a twelve-city tour...
...return not to seek redemption, to try to rewrite my own saga, or simply to report another pair of hockey games...
...thus continued the sad saga of the Red Sox,losers of four straight seven-game WorldSeries--1946, 1967, 1975 and 1986. In fact, theRed Sox have not won a Series since 1918, whenBabe Ruth was still with the club...