Word: sagas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Wednesday, Feb. 20, 9-11 p.m.: Yet another chapter in the saga of the Heiden family: Beth skates in the 3,000 meters. In the women's giant slalom, Liechtenstein's Hanni Wenzel is the one to catch...
...saga continues...
...imports 93% of its bauxite, the major aluminum ore, but the Bureau of Mines is experimenting with a process to extract alumina from clays found in Georgia and Arkansas. More experiments, more domestic mining and some compromises on the environmental front would help avoid repetition of the oil saga of the 1960s and 1970s, when the U.S. became needlessly overdependent on dubious foreign suppliers. In an era of growing economic confrontation, increasing reliance on imported minerals creates a potentially dangerous breach in the nation's defenses...
Godfather I and II (1972, 1974). Francis Ford Coppola's phenomenal one-two punch. Crime melodrama first as family saga, then as historical epic...
...potent collaborator, Bertolt Brecht. One immediate impression is that the lyricist always has an enormous impact on the composer. Rodgers and Hart is light-years away from Rodgers and Hammerstein. In like fashion, Pirate Jenny of Brecht's Threepenny Opera dwells in a totally different realm from The Saga of Jenny of Lady in the Dark with lyrics by Ira Gershwin ("Jenny made her mind up when she was three/ She, herself, was going to trim the Christmas tree./ Christmas Eve she lit the candles -tossed the taper away./ Little Jenny was an orphan on Christmas...