Word: sagas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...divorce. It is hard to tell who suffers more, the wandering parents or their children. Delivering follows two thoroughly upset brothers on their newspaper route the morning after their mother and father noisily called it quits. In the title novella, Finding a Girl in America, Dubus picks up the saga of Hank Allison that he began in two earlier volumes of stories. Experiments in consensual philandering ultimately broke up the Allison marriage. Now Hank, 35, lives alone, teaches at a small Massachusetts college and has sequential affairs with matriculating young women: "What had been spice in his married twenties...
...Reporter-Researcher Brigid O'Hara-Forster in New York City, the Mount St. Helens saga was her third cover story in five weeks, and one of dozens in a long career of tracking wars and politics-but it was her first cover story to have no villains, only victims. "It put our merely human failings and frailties in perspective," she said. "It is literally inhuman...
...would have thought that this prism of bliss is a mere pause amid tumult, a respite in a plot-clogged saga of murder and revenge, which features, among a good many other things, poison asps, opium, the collapse into rubble of an entire Indian temple? With Natalia Makarova's direction, the American Ballet Theater has produced the full-length La Bayadére, at a cost of about $500,000. American balletgoers are not used to such a florid, densely populated drama. To appreciate it, one must be prepared for a very full, surprising experience. The evening...
Movie sequels never seem to measure up either to the original or to the memories of our enjoyment. The Empire Strikes Back, the second "chapter" in Lucas' saga, was awaited with trepidation. Again Clarke sneaked an early look-and once more came away eager to write a major story. Says Clarke: "This is no ordinary sequel. Lucas and his company have used their Star Wars profits to make a film far more sophisticated in its technical effects. Lucas' imagination is as bountiful as ever, and he seems to have taken up where Disney left off. There are disappointments...
...Empire Strikes Back comes in the opening credits: the movie is identified as Episode V. Since it is the immediate sequel to the original Star Wars, that opus has been retitled Star Wars: Episode IV, raising a meteor shower of questions. The answers: Lucas has begun his space saga in the middle, and both pictures are the centerpieces of a projected nine-part series. The remaining movies, fore and aft, have not yet been laid out in detail, but Lucas has the framework, a kind of history of what happened in that galaxy long ago and far away. A preview...