Word: sagas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...cried often. "She's a pretty fragile person, just emotionally fragile," her friend says. "She was not a depressed person, but it's just that she was pretty sensitive." Stephen Enghouse, a self-described classmate and friend, wondered aloud last week if she has been concocting the whole sordid saga involving the President, or at least dramatizing her role in it. He told ABC's Nightline that "She's kind of young and seeks attention...I think it's probably likely that yes, she's making it up." Enghouse, though, has not spoken to Lewinsky in nearly three years...
...some might say media farce. This story follows several similar episodes of stories pushed into the traditional media after being spread on the Internet--for example, the notion that TWA Flight 800 was shot down by the U.S. Navy--where the stories were nutty and baseless. The Clintern saga certainly is not baseless, although the comic seediness of it, in contrast to the high tragedy of 1963, can be seen as a telling comment on the new medium. After all, the Internet beat TV and print to this story, and ultimately forced it on them, for one simple reason: lower...
...Titanic' on a Sea of Green The seafaring saga leaves box office records in its wake as audiences continue to pour into theaters...
...least breathing hard. After granting the "Christmas visit" story its 10 minutes of fame, both the 10 o'clock news on CNN and CNBC's "Brian Williams" had begun to sound a dirge for Kenneth Starr's case against the President. But by 10:25 p.m., the Lewinsky saga was gone completely. Mere minutes later, Sexgate-dependable CNBC was showing -- oh, the sweet innocence of days past! -- the Keebler Elf waving from the New York Stock Exchange podium to kick off a public offering. Has the world gone...
Legal maneuver and political maneuver, the dank gloom of the prison into which the Africans are crammed, awaiting their fate, an astonishing evocation of the terrors of the slave ships' notorious Middle Passage--Spielberg permits himself time to explore every aspect of his saga in rich detail. And he grants his actors--among them a warily compassionate Morgan Freeman as a black abolitionist; Matthew McConaughey as a puppyish lawyer growing into an attack dog; Anthony Hopkins as John Quincy Adams, bent with age and crotchets, but finally lending his eloquence to the cause--a similar latitude. It's a shame...