Word: sagas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER. The adaptation of Tom Clancy's best-selling nuclear- submarine saga (with sturdy Sean Connery) earns its thrills; it nicely balances human menace with technical gee-wizardry. But could this scenario happen in Gorbachev's navy...
That is not to say that the breakup of the Trump marriage isn't a story. It is, and it is appropriate to have a little fun with it. After all, the Trump saga -- the ascendancy of Donald Trump as a business power, of Mr. and Mrs. Trump as social doyens -- has been a masterwork of media manipulation and self-promotion, abetted by a celebrity-worshiping press corps. But to watch a purportedly serious newspaper like Newsday report breathlessly in its lead story that "hotel records show that Maples paid no bills" is to discover where priorities in the news...
...adaptation of the best-selling submarine saga nicely balances human menace with technical gee wizardry. -- Do U.S. and Soviet subs really play such games? Yes, and then some...
...moves were the latest in a takeover saga that began when Canadian developer Robert Campeau acquired Allied Stores and Federated Department Stores for $10.2 billion in the 1980s. The bankruptcy filing will hold off major creditors while allowing the stores to remain open and pay suppliers promptly. But before it can emerge from bankruptcy, the American operation must work out a creditor-repayment plan that is likely to require the sale of at least some of the company's nine retailing chains...
...murdered by a half- deranged derelict at New York City's Bellevue Hospital last year, the press promptly pointed out that she was not just any doctor. She was "full of life" and blessed with a "brilliant mind." The nightmare of Hedda Nussbaum and her murdered Lisa was the saga of not just another battered wife but a once lovely, once successful, patiently suffering woman who had been possessed by a diabolical...