Word: sagas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...story of the Square is a neverending saga of independently owned shops (J. F. Olsson & Co., The Bookcase, Reading International) that succumb to high rents, only to be replaced by trendy yuppie huts (The Body Shop, Origins, WordsWorth Abridged). "The Shops by Harvard Yard" is only the latest installment. And every time another landlord drops out of the Harvard Square rat race, we compose another elegy to a neighborhood whose character is quickly fading...
Charllott Keatley's My Mother Said I Never Should is a family saga tracking the relationships between mothers and daughters over four generations. But if this description calls up visions of an evening of sick-making emotionalism, don't despair. The script steers well clear of any such dangerous terrain...
...these questions. Sula (1973) examines the stormy friendship of two black women and the opposing imperatives to obey or to rebel against the mores of their beleaguered community. Song of Solomon (1977), her only novel with a male protagonist, proved a critical and commercial breakthrough for Morrison; the phantasmagoric saga of a black man in mystical pursuit of his past won the author rapturous praise and a greatly enlarged circle of readers...
...screenwriter, Arnold Schulman, is about as faithful to the book as some of the Shilts's characters to their lovers. Many liberties are taken, and many unsettling ommisions (namely the entire New York saga) give pause. Where's Larry Kramer...
...love with himself." Last year the feds and local police busted Wills' six- man, 14,000-sq.-ft. "chop shop" set in an industrial park in Bensalem, Pennsylvania. But, while all his cohorts were prosecuted, Wills fled after his arrest -- and remains at large. What has emerged of his saga illustrates how easy and lucrative it is to make a living abducting and dismembering automobiles in America...