Word: sagas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...called Fatso by his crew mates, from those of Garcia Marquez. When the simple sailor remarks upon his "indefatigable desire to live," the presence of the aspiring author who had read his Faulkner and Hemingway seems self-evident. But these literary touches only add zest to an already astounding saga. Those who care about the career of Garcia Marquez will find much of interest here. And so will readers who want to know how it feels to be at the mercy of nature...
...bomb aboard Flight 840 took only four lives, far fewer than the 166 people who died two days earlier when a Mexican jetliner crashed into a mountainside in central Mexico, but it was one of the most chilling episodes in the generation-old saga of airborne terrorism. The bombing demonstrated that neither governments nor airlines have yet found the means to make air travelers safe from terrorist attacks...
Steven Spielberg's controversial The Color Purple, which had received eleven nominations--the same number as Out of Africa--won no awards at all. Based on Alice Walker's novel, Purple is a saga about rural Southern black women in the first decades of the century. Some blacks claimed that it insulted black men by depicting them as child abusers and wife beaters; others defended the film as a breakthrough for blacks in Hollywood. The argument was complicated when Spielberg failed to gain a nomination as Best Director--a sign, said his friends, that the industry establishment envied his commercial...
There is, however, one American hero in this disappointing saga...
...movie budgeted at a mere $7 million will go down the tubes if Lu Anne somehow manages to play her affliction out to its final scene and destroy herself. Whether Walker lives or dies hardly makes a dime's worth of difference to anyone, including him. Stone's saga of these two heedless souls is both enthralling and a little disappointing. The conclusion hardly matters. All the fun, most of it wonderfully nasty, is to be had in getting there...