Word: sagas
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...Simpson Saga. For most sports fans it all began during the telecast of Game 5 of Knicks-Rockets 1994 NBA championship series with a white-bronco chase along a near-deserted freeway in California. Few could have guessed then that the saga would continue for 16 months of jury selection, DNA evidence, bloody gloves, mystery envelopes, Fuhrman tapes and, in maybe the most ironic twist of the entire circus, a verdict in four hours...
...then, we knew a whole year had gone by since the beginning of the O.J. saga when the NBA crowned another champion--well, the same champion for a second straight time, as the Rockets humiliated a young Orlando Magic team in four straight games...
Which brings us up to today. In a fitting turn of events, the O.J. saga will once again upstage the playoffs of a professional sport, this time baseball. And then both sports and life will move...
...office gold: Rising Sun, his thriller that exploited American fears of Japan's economic threat, earned $65 million domestically for Hollywood in 1993. Disclosure, his 1994 topical twist on sex-harassment in the office (Demi Moore chases Michael Douglas around the desk) collected $83 million domestically. Congo, his adventure saga featuring a talking gorilla, was released last summer to widespread pans but still made a hefty $80 million. Maybe that's because its advertisements didn't feature a single cast member--just the real superstar behind the project: "From the author of Jurassic Park...
This chapter in the Harvard-Washington saga brings good news for the Kennedy School and Harvard as a whole. Students can again look forward to Nye's illumination of international conflict; he has indicated that he may resume teaching after becoming accustomed to his new job. Perhaps after a similar period of adjustment Ellwood, who wrote landmark papers on poverty with Mary Jo Bane, will again contribute one of his charismatic guest lectures to Ec 10 or offer a course in the economics department...