Word: sagas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...saga of Ibnet camp grew more and more curious as the days went by. First, foreign relief workers watched with incredulity as Ethiopian officials abruptly ordered some 30,000 famine-weakened residents out of the refugee camp, burned down their huts and told them to begin walking back to their homes, many a two-week trek away. Then an official in Addis Ababa, the capital, dismissed the accounts of a forced evacuation as fabrications. Eventually the Foreign Ministry issued a splenetic communique calling the stories "a shockingly big lie" that betrayed the tendency of "high-ranking officials of the Reagen...
Political undertones notwithstanding, The House of the Spirits is essentially a family saga encompassing four generations. The country is unnamed, though the character called the Candidate and later the President is manifestly Salvador Allende. Similarly, the Poet, whose verse everyone in the book seems to have memorized, is clearly Chile's late Nobel laureate Pablo Neruda. Ghostly happenings are commonplace in the great house of the "spirits" belonging to the Truebas. Eccentrics abound in that household. Rosa the Beautiful, for example, possesses a head of green hair that hangs "like a botanical mantle" down to her waist. Nicolas Trueba moves...
...life resembles a far-fetched hard-luck version of the actual Willie Nelson saga, but it is first and foremost a rolling, highly entertaining chronicle of its own. I all of all kinds of deadpan golden nuggets of humor--greasy, love-to-hate-'em Williams; imperfect but irresistable heroes; hard drinking, good friends, good loving, heartache, strumming acoustic guitar accompaniment--the tale can sound too much like your generic hit country song. But as Doc sings, "We write what we live And we live what we write." And Bud Shrake's off-beat, unpretentious script and Man Rudolph's even...
...more; the streets and screens provide all the evidence they need. It is only the privileged young who can be free, however briefly, from envy. Given this flaw, Once Upon a Time, an account of the heiress's first 17 years, might have been a mere riches-to-rags saga of Society's Child, who proved that success was largely a matter of jeans. Instead the author speaks in melancholy outbursts about an evaporated world of titled men and breathtaking women, of movie stars and mansions and what seemed to be a permanently floodlighted arena lacking only one component: love...
Despite the box-office success of such recent blockbusters as E.T. and Star Wars, no movie has topped Gone With the Wind. When measured in inflationadjusted dollars, the 1939 saga of Rhett Butler and Scarlett O'Hara has reaped $400 million in ticket sales, making it the biggest film bonanza of all time...