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...must say, I wasn't surprised that Mr. Cowan's saga made so little sense. November 25 was the fourth Wednesday of 1959. And on the day before Thanksgiving, The Crimson's editorial page always sucks...
...sure, the old saga of unexpected wealth, envy and rancor has not been abolished. In Philadelphia last summer, bitter feuding erupted between Danny Hagan, 28, and Margie Moore, 27, co-workers at an engineering company, over Hagan's slice of the $17 million winning ticket he bought for Moore. The battle ended last month in a sealed settlement and a shredded lifetime friendship...
...saga of Forrest Carter's book is a publisher's dream. The Education of Little Tree, a sensitive memoir of Carter's Native American childhood, was published in hard-cover in 1976 to little fanfare. Released in softcover by the University of New Mexico Press this year, the book now tops the New York Times paperback best-seller list, with 600,000 copies in print...
...conflict between the Irish and the British in the 1870's, as witnessed by a Southern belle with Irish blood. The effect is less than enthralling. Scarlett lived and breathed the South in Gone with the Wind; in Scarlett, she is essentially a spectator in a far less interesting saga...
...Clan of the Cave Bear, the proceeds from a five-year Mac Arthur "genius" grant and funds from private investors, he has turned out a succession of impressive films. Among them: The Brother from Another Planet (1984), the adventures of a black extraterrestrial, and Matewan (1987), a historical saga about striking West Virginia coal miners in the 1920s. His most ambitious project, Eight Men Out (1988), a retelling of the 1919 Chicago Black Sox scandal, cost just $6 million, or about half what Bruce Willis commands for starring in a movie. "The way that we keep coming back into...