Word: sagas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Florence had been taking fertility pills. And she and Nathan had hit the jackpot. Change the names and up the ante, and the Bobbi McCaughey saga is fully scripted in the Coen Brothers' gem Raising Arizona...
...rite-of-passage saga fit for a cartoon classic. Plucky kids dream of breathless adventures in a rainbow kingdom. They will be animators, spin magical musical tales for children of all ages and make pots of money in video and burger tie-ins. But standing guard before the cartoon castle is the evil Cruella Di Sney. "The animated-feature franchise is mine, all mine!" she thunders. "Nobody does it better, and nobody better...
...case was more than a private domestic tragedy. For one thing, there was the overseas audience in Britain, watching for the very first time a fellow citizen being tried in a legal system that had previously been reserved for such spectacular but very American melodramas as the O.J. Simpson saga. When the guilty verdict was announced, an audience watching in a pub in Woodward's home village of Elton, in northern England, was so taken aback that for a time all that could be heard was the amplified sound of the teenager crying in the courtroom 3,000 miles away...
...Martyr, anyone? The Netly News on the Kashpureff saga...
While the book does have a plot of sorts, it is more a compilation of snapshots of life for twenty-somethings in the mid-90s than a saga. The story is less about the band's struggle to record an album then it is about the way the band members spend their afternoons and nights. Gary, uncomfortable and nervous, makes a fool out of himself while shopping for a Christmas present in Victoria's Secret. Mark takes an AIDS test in a free clinic after waking up so hungover that he can barely remember the sex, much less have...