Word: sagas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...with cool compassion; they did their lurid business with style. Coppola's own style, which set the tone for '70s movies, was called operatic -- meaning that the characters moved slowly, died grandly and emoted at the top of their lungs. The book was a fast, brutal read; the movie saga was an extended, ravishing look...
...long last, a long look back in The Godfather Part III, a meandering but finally quite affecting climax to the saga. It is 1979, and Michael Corleone (Al Pacino), the sleek, ruthless don, has become a legitimate billionaire. His sister Connie (Talia Shire) has dredged herself out of a sullen stupor to become his feisty adviser. His ex-wife Kay (Diane Keaton) has remarried. His son Anthony (Franc D'Ambrosio) has eyes to become an opera singer. His daughter Mary (Sofia Coppola) is itching to grow up and fall in love...
After more than a decade of anticipation, Francis Ford Coppola's third installment of the Godfather film saga opens on Christmas Day. The hiatus between episodes was longer than the duration of both World Wars. But other megaprojects are marinating out there at their own dilatory pace. Examples...
...again, off-again saga of the Noriega tapes turned on again last week. Federal District Judge William Hoeveler lifted the ban he had imposed a month ago on CNN's airing of General Manuel Noriega's government-monitored phone conversations from prison. Reason: counsel for the ex-Panamanian dictator no longer objected to having them broadcast. After reviewing transcripts of the five tapes obtained by CNN, lawyer Frank Rubino concluded that the most damaging conversation had already been played on the air and that it "does no good to close the barn door after the horse is out." Yet Rubino...
...block the dam because it would destroy a valuable wildlife and recreational area. Colorado officials condemned the decision as "shortsighted." But biologist Carse Pustmueller of the National Audubon Society applauded the move. "The project is absolutely not viable under the Clean Water Act," said Pustmueller. "This whole Two Forks saga has educated everybody that water is finite. We can't just keep building more projects...