Word: sagas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...AITKEN, senior editor of TIME's Society section, doubled recently as editor of Mad Genius: The Odyssey, Pursuit, and Capture of the Unabomber Suspect (Warner Books; $5.99), an in-depth look at the terror-bomb saga prepared at lightning speed by TIME staff members and shipped to stores this week. Others raced to put out "quickie" books on the case; ours not only combined fresh reporting and thoughtful writing, but it also got there first. The 11-day effort left Aitken newly impressed by what first-rate team journalism can achieve. "I hesitate to say this, because I treasure...
...UNABOMBER SAGA CONTINUED...
...believes may be the Unabomber, Ted Kaczynski, 53, has begun to emerge from the obscurity and isolation he cultivated for most of his life. And as he comes to the surface, so does David, 46, his brother and his keeper. No one quite expected the saga of the Unabomber to encompass such poignance--and such eternal parables. The prodigal and the faithful son, the favorite and the outcast, the firstborn and the younger are characters as old as the Bible that resound in every family today. And here, with surprising pangs of recognition, are variations on themes that began with...
Princess Margaret's saga runs throughout the narrative, showing that today's young royals did not invent bad behavior. Margaret was prettier and wittier than her sister, but Elizabeth got the throne. Shortly thereafter, Margaret told her sister and sovereign that she loved the divorced Group Captain Peter Townsend and wanted to marry him. Scarred by memories of the abdication and cautious in her role as head of the Church of England, Elizabeth turned her down; Margaret never really recovered, and the episode may have left the Queen permanently incapable of disciplining her family. Margaret's subsequent marriage to photographer...
...life that can be counted on to spark empathy--for instance, his early career as a traveling Pentecostal "boy preacher," which began at age four. But when it comes to his forays into racially charged controversies, Sharpton's account is self-servingly selective. Take his rendition of the saga of Tawana Brawley, the black teenager whose sensational claims of having been raped by a gang of white men kept New York City on the edge of racial meltdown for months. Nowhere does Sharpton mention his ridiculous allegation that she had been victimized by an Irish Republican Army conspiracy organized...