Word: sagas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Discovery Channel in August, the book is Fuentes' answer to Kenneth Clark's Civilisation, which ignored the Spanish- speaking world. Aiming to show that the Latin legacy is as rich as anything in the Anglo-Saxon tradition, Fuentes has condensed five centuries of Hispanic experience into a multimedia saga that ranges, in his words, "from the caves of Altamira to the graffiti of East Los Angeles...
...Brooklyn bro (Giancarlo Esposito) who bonds with his German-born cabbie (Armin Mueller-Stahl); the blind Parisian (Beatrice Dalle) who, sigh, sees life more clearly than the African (Isaach De Bankole) in the front seat; the Finnish depressive (Matti Pellonpaa) who relates a you-think-you-got-troubles saga -- these are shaggy- dog stories without a tail. Or, really, a tale...
...latest twist to the saga, the council on Sunday called an unprecedented vote to decide whether Beys should be impeached. Beys won the vote, which was cast by secret ballot, by an unknown margin and will finish out his term as treasurer...
...biggest surprise came when the award for drama was announced: The Kentucky Cycle, a six-hour historical saga by the relatively unknown playwright Robert Schenkkan -- and the first play to win a Pulitzer without ever having been produced in New York City. His epic, which spans 200 years of American history as experienced by three eastern Kentucky families, premiered in Seattle last June and completed a six-week run in Los Angeles last month...
...authorities continue their investigation of the abandonment, the saga of John Kingery seems destined for a heartwarming ending. Myatt and her siblings want to move Kingery to a Morgantown, Ky., nursing home so they can better watch over him. Says Myatt's brother Charles, a Morgantown resident: "We want to bring him back here, close to the family." Although he will probably never be able to grasp it fully, John Kingery has a lot of grandchildren and even great-grandchildren waiting to welcome...