Word: sagas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Eddie Ellis, and why has he been writing this humongous saga? A onetime newspaper and wire-service reporter, Ellis, 84, has lived for the past 28 years in a book-crammed (15,000 volumes) walk-up apartment in Manhattan's Chelsea district. Slowed by age and emphysema, he rarely ventures from home but is still full of vim and spunk; he spends an hour or more each day adding to the diaries, typing on an old Hermes manual...
...fought over territory; the final ones are waged over memory. The lack of recognition of the black Americans who first struggled for the right to train as pilots, then for the right to fly in combat, is one of the saddest lapses in U.S. military history--an important saga missing from most textbooks. Now after decades of struggle, the story of the Tuskegee airmen, and the vicious racism they overcame to become war heroes, will finally reach a wide audience. Starting on Aug. 26, with additional play dates over the following few weeks, HBO will broadcast a TV drama based...
...make a connection between what you believe and what I know," she tells her husband. Her research turns up an engaging tale of the feisty young girl, half-French, half-Egyptian, who eventually became the Mother. But this half of Journey to Ithaca does not mesh convincingly with the saga of Sophie and Matteo; it seems less a tale within a tale than a totally discrete narrative. Desai beautifully describes the Indian landscapes, but the people who move through them, especially the three principals, seem so monomaniacal about their journeys that they remain, in the end, inaccessible...
...prevent Republicans from looking like diehard supporters of the existing system in the fall elections. "Sheila Burke was the Republican executioner of Hillary Clinton's health-care bill," insists Democrat Lawrence O'Donnell, who was then the Finance Committee's top staff member. "I saw the health-care saga last year as Hillary versus Sheila, and anyone who put their money on Hillary was crazy...
...NASA's KC-135 jet, which flies a special, parabolic trajectory to produce almost a minute of weightlessness at a time. The shots of the astronauts enjoying weightlessness early in the mission, performing somersaults and tossing sunglasses and tape players gleefully, add yet another realistic dimension to this space saga...