Word: sagas
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They make a swank couple with Old Hollywood reverbs: Grace Kelly dating James Dean. Pitt has updated Dean's outsider hero from East of Eden in the unhappy-family saga Legends of the Fall and played Anne Rice's Louis as a vampire without a cause. He's good at it, but in Hollywood there are a million broody hunks; Pitt has the primacy but not the patent. Paltrow could be something different, maybe unique. She could bring elegance, lightness of touch, pedigree--what used to be called class--back to American movie acting. She has shown glimpses...
...royals to be exemplary. Homer's gods on Olympus, after all, played out elaborate soap operas of venality, stupidity, cruelty and greed. The Windsors, bearing up well under their hereditary burden of chinlessness and a tendency to run to twits, managed nonetheless to turn the saga of the stunningly unbright Duke and Duchess of Windsor into one of the century's great love stories. Perhaps Charles and Diana, in their follies, are simply enlarging the dramatic franchise of the family, giving it a contemporary feel...
LONDON: The Royal saga that engrossed the world and graced the covers of newsmagazines and tabloids has officially come to an end. After 3 1/2 years of separation, Prince Charles and Princess Diana announced Friday that they have agreed to a divorce. The split will be made final on August 28, with the Princess relinquishing her title of Her Royal Highness but keeping the title of Diana, Princess of Wales. As a result, she could be expected to curtsy to the Queen, her husband and her sons. Although no formal announcement of the settlement was made, Diana is expected...
...contrast to the drivel we have been subjected to here from our "much more objective" press, as O.J.'s public relations consultant Max Clifford called it. Indeed, the great British press has done it again. Despite all the crazy exclusives our papers have come up with during the whole saga, they all had one thing in common: the belief that O.J.'s trial was unfair in various ways. But now it amazes me to see that the media and the infamous chat show O.J. appeared on had no qualms in acting as police, judge and jury...
...latest chapter in this saga occurred earlier this spring. On March 17, the Undergraduate Council voted to have the ROTC ceremony moved from the Yard. The Council demanded that the event be held off-campus, citing its disapproval of the "don't ask, don't tell" policy of the military as the reason for the resolution...