Word: sagas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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WITH HER NEW NOVEL, An Indecent Obsession, Colleen McCullough appears to have forsworn the model for guaranteed success she patented four years ago. With The Thorn Birds she proved she knows how to tell a good tale; as soon as her sweeping saga of love and tragedy on the Australian Outback was released, there was no doubt that it would be a hit. Whether you read it with one eye on the kids as they built sand castles on the Jersey shore or saved it to consume during coffee breaks, the epic sucked you in with its portrayal...
...saga of Pinocchio became immortalized in more than 80 languages; fans of the marionette, whose nose grew when he told a lie, claim that no other book except the Bible has been read in so many tongues. No one knows how many copies have been sold, but the total is in the tens of millions. There have been 256 editions in Italian alone, printed by 72 different publishers, and more than 100 English editions...
...plotting, the first two hours evoke a world that can still outrage us. In America, however, there is no unknown corner of history to illumine. Ireland thus becomes less a symbol than a storymaker's device. Events rush together, plot overwhelms character, acting turns to shouting, and the saga sags...
...placement of the engines, which went with barely a hitch, suggests a significant change in the 12-year, $230 million saga of never-ending delays and escalating costs. Work is bustling in the engine room where "almost literally nothing was going on a month ago," according to a Harvard official. And the plant will be in full operation by August 1982, barring unforeseen installation and testing problems or court-ordered injunctions, David M. Rosen, director of governmental relations and Harvard's MATEP spokesman, says...
...This is a ridiculous saga," Martin concedes. "I can hardly believe it myself. If the court says I am guilty, then I don't want them to put me in jail. I want them to put me in the nuthouse." Major Don Doyle of the Austin police department agrees: "Nobody wants to send the dumb s.o.b. to the penitentiary...