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Alexander adds many new details to the saga, revealing, for example, that Sukhreet's job at a massage parlor included an extra $15 for going topless. But her gift is to make sense of what is already known: how a daughter came to turn on her devoted mother, why a venerable judge would jeopardize her reputation for a $19,000-a-year job for her child, and how the most famous Miss America of them all turned out to be anything but our ideal...
While Harrison Ford and the multi-million dollar Indiana Jones saga have glorified archaeology as a pursuit of mild-mannered archaeologists say their jobs are often fairly pedestrian...
...good guy Jack Ryan, Baldwin stands up to Soviet submaster Sean Connery in the toy-boat saga The Hunt for Red October, which opened this month to record-breaking business. In next month's Miami Blues, a mammothly entertaining rogue comedy, he is a psychotic but likable ex-con. This week, off-Broadway, he opens in Craig Lucas' deft and delectable romantic fantasy Prelude to a Kiss, playing a love-struck guy whose bride's personality is stolen on their wedding...
MARY REILLY by Valerie Martin (Doubleday; $18.95). The Jekyll-Hyde saga from the point of view of a spunky, sensual servant girl...
...negotiate with the Vikings, whom they called Varangians, specifically with a tribe known as the Rus. "Our whole land is great and rich, but there is no order in it," said the Slavs. "Come to rule and reign over us." Though patriotic Soviet historians have strenuously challenged this % saga, the Chronicle reports that a Viking Rus named Rurik went to take over the region, and that it "became known as the land...