Word: sagas
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...referential in its mixture of sadistic violence and kitsch daintiness, belongs to the Chicago recluse Henry Darger (1892-1973). Darger's rented apartment, after his death, turned out to be crammed with the output of a lifetime's obsession with innocence and violence, including a 15,000-page illustrated saga titled The Story of the Vivian Girls in What Is Known as the Realms of the Unreal, a sort of madman's Iliad of endless carnage between adults and moppets. No "mainstream" artist has so far based anything in Darger, which is just as well; in today's America...
...easily sweep through it. In the poetry of action, that tension of the soul between the hero each of us aspires to be and the transgressors we too often are is captured in the Leatherstocking tales. Boys and college students don't know how good the saga they monopolize by default...
Epps concluded by saying that Malcolm X will continue to appeal to people because he is part of the "epic saga and myth that record how men and women transform society...
MANKIND'S RECORD OF INVENtion and discovery is an unfinished epic of awe and wonder. In his widely (and justly) praised The Discoverers (1983), historian Daniel J. Boorstin narrated with scholarly elan the saga of man's quest for knowledge of the world and himself. Now he has essayed what his book's subtitle calls "a history of heroes of the imagination." The Creators' range is impressive, from the Vedic hymns of ancient India to the modern cinema. The end result, alas, is considerably less exciting than its predecessor...
THROWING OUT A PLEA BARGAIN IS AN UNUSUAL step in the U.S. court system. But just about everything in the continuing legal saga of Christopher Drogoul is unusual. Though Drogoul pleaded guilty in June to 60 of 347 counts that he made $4 billion in illegal loans to Iraq before Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait, a prosecutor announced last week that the government was no longer willing to honor that agreement because the defendant lied throughout his three-week sentencing hearing...