Word: sagas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Dallas, Lorimar's Ewing-family saga, is still around. The Who-Shot-J.R.? mania of 1980, when 300 million viewers in 57 countries waited breathlessly for the most successful cliffhanger in entertainment history, has abated, but enough people still watch the supersoap that its rating this season is higher than, oh, thirtysomething's. On May 3, CBS will reunite many of the early cast members in a two-hour fantasy finale that leads J.R. through an It's a Wonderful Life-style tour of what Dallas would have been like without him. And tens of millions of viewers will...
...last and best -- certainly by far the most inclusive -- comes, fittingly, from Alex Jones, whose reporting about the Binghams in the New York Times won a 1987 Pulitzer Prize and alerted publishers to the saga's dramatic potential. He and his co-author and wife, Susan Tifft, a TIME associate editor, have induced virtually all the members of this tortured family to expose seemingly every intimate detail, as if in some ritual of confession and humiliation to make up for all the years of privilege. The reader is exposed to reckless drug use and irredeemable boozing, to a daughter...
...Picasso) is profitable but a tad less sensational. And the instant renown achieved by Kelley's Nancy does not really signal the end of civilization as we have known it. Good, balanced, substantial biographies about controversial figures continue to appear and win notice. Last week Jackson Pollock: An American Saga, written by two obscure authors, won a Pulitzer Prize...
...most recent incident in the ongoing saga of the seven square feet of brick and dirt occured two days ago, when vandals poured calcium chloride--which hampers the growth of foliage--into the hole where the new tree is to be planted. As in the past, the vegicidal culprits were not caught...
...crime was one of the most spectacular -- and most tangled -- in postwar Austrian history. It riveted the attention of the public for 14 years. Last week, after a trial that lasted 13 months, the saga of the ill-fated freighter Lucona finally came to an end when Udo Proksch was convicted of murder and fraud and was sentenced to 20 years in prison...