Word: sagas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Native Americans new age wise men, alcoholic victims, valiant survivors of a Wild West holocaust (as in Ken Burns' recent PBS saga), just plain folk not much different from the rest of us, casino-owning entrepreneurs, sullen separatists...
...recent shot of her mother laughing. But when her own life's work faces you in bulk, at least in the 275-picture bulk hauled up by the Whitney, the slack starts to show. Goldin is a diarist, with a diarist's instincts for the ways into her own saga but also the same weakness for the dull stretches...
...sordid saga began in early July when the student members of the search committee in charge of finding a new director of Harvard Dining Services complained that they were being ignored by the administration. To begin with, the three students on the committee--unlike administrators--were not provided with the information they needed to properly interview the candidates. The students were also given only one working day's notice before the interviews. According to student member Rudd W. Coffey '97, Dean Lewis subsequently "humiliated" the students during the interview when one of them asked a question answered by the candidate...
...role he played seemed revealing, and you can judge for yourself on page 32. His wife Eileen McGann, a noted lawyer, was much more willing to talk about the personal aspects of the brutal week. Both interviews, along with the story our political team put together on this odd saga and the analysis by Robert Wright of the values debate, offer, I hope, telling glimpses into the most amazing intersection of politics and personality we have seen this year...
...definitely views this book as a comeback with a vengeance," says his editor, Jonathan Karp. Five years ago, Puzo had quadruple-bypass surgery, followed by a long and gloomy convalescence. His book in progress, a saga about the Borgias, stalled. He thought he might never write again. But transpose the Machiavellian city-state of the Borgias to a fortress in the Bronx, add a summer palace on Long Island and playgrounds in Las Vegas and Hollywood, and--Ecco!--the godfather of Mafia fiction is back in business...