Word: sagas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Tobias Wolff's childhood saga is brought back to life...
...circular structure of time in this family saga reminds one, inevitably, of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude, However, with its wistful quality and its preoccupation with love in extreme old age, Hijuelos' book bears a closer affinity to Love in the Time of Cholera. A Pantagruclian gusto concerning sea, food, and bodily functions also informs the novel...
...networks' frenetic pursuit of movies-of-the-week based on real-life news events has ascended into the surrealistic stratosphere. The Koresh saga wasn't ^ even over before its TV-movie doppelganger began taking shape on a movie set 300 miles away. Casting is under way (Timothy Daly of Wings will play Koresh), shooting could begin in as little as two weeks, and NBC hopes to have the finished film on the air in May. If the real-life standoff is still going on, Koresh may even be able to watch it from his fortress to see how the story...
...play of greed, corruption, sales, dehumanization, money, and crime. (Sound familiar? It is.) It references the fall of Drexel Burnham Lambert, and Christian Collins's Shelly Levene seems inspired by the Michael Milken saga. Is this yet another latecomer in the formerly fashionable critique of the "excesses of the 1980s," or is it somehow perversely nostalgic for the Glitter Decade? Either way, Glengarry Glen Ross seems unnecessarily dated, if not outright superfluous...
With these three pops of a handgun, a new chapter ripped open in America's excruciating abortion saga. A complex conflict involving totems, taboos, theology, medicine, politics and judicial rulings had suddenly dropped to the level of a shoot-out. At the center were two hardworking fathers with firm convictions that they willingly put into practice. Both had experienced marital problems; both gave generously of their scarce free time to volunteer work. What separated them -- what kept them apart until it fused them in violence -- was a profound disagreement, a glitch in the moral geography that permits parallel lives...