Word: sagas
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...will breathtaking scenery and an ongoing family saga sell to today's twitch-happy gamers? Genevieve Lord, producer of Myst IV, thinks gamers will like the change of pace. "In libraries and video stores, you have variety, so why not in video games?" she asks. Whereas Doom is like an action movie, Myst is more of a drama. The appeal is subtler, but that doesn't mean it should be doomed. --By Anita Hamilton
...director Zhang Yimou made carefully crafted films (such as Raise the Red Lantern and To Live) that revisited painful periods of his country's recent past. In his last film, 2002's Hero, Zhang tried something utterly different: he retold China's founding myth as an epic martial-arts saga. Hero was undeniably gorgeous?Zhang, a former cinematographer, couldn't make an ugly film if he were forced to shoot with a Super 8 and a penlight?but viewers found it curiously inert, neither as affecting as his earlier, semi-subversive work nor as kinetic as a full-blooded action...
...smoothly with the strongman government of an oil-rich nation. But when the company makes a move to sell major assets, the government decides it wants more control over its black gold. The company balks - and finds itself accused of tax evasion. Though it sounds like Russia's Yukos saga, this scenario is playing itself out in neighboring Kazakhstan between the government of authoritarian President Nursultan Nazarbayev and British energy giant BG Group. On July 19, citing the results of a March audit, Kazakhstan's financial police accused the company's local subsidiary, BG Karachaganak, of failing...
...down, Iran announced it was repudiating the agreement. Washington now wants the U.N. Security Council to impose sanctions. But Iran, with its extensive ties with Iraq's majority Shi'a population, including some militias, has many ways to make life miserable for coalition forces in Iraq - which the mini-saga of the British sailors deftly signaled...
...melodies buried in layers of static, radio noise and percussion, so bewildered executives at the band's record label, Reprise, that they refused to release it. In response, Wilco left Reprise, bought the rights to the album and released it eight months later on the independent label Nonesuch--a saga chronicled in Sam Jones' 2002 documentary, I Am Trying to Break Your Heart. The album sold nearly 500,000 copies, easily the most of Wilco's career...