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...vice versa. After years of churning out hits, ABC now finds its prime- time fortunes largely dependent on just one show, the long-running, top- rated saga of the Carrington clan. In addition to Dynasty, ABC has only one other prime-time program in the Nielsen top ten this season, Hotel, a fluffy comedy- drama that has the good fortune to occupy the time slot immediately following Dy- nasty. Disappointing performances from most of its other series dropped ABC to last place in the prime-time ratings this season, its lowest finish in ten years. Problems mounted elsewhere as well...
...posthumous career, smoothly bridging past and future. The novel is a sequel to The Fountain Overflows (1956), the chronicle of a shabby-genteel family in turn-of-the-century London. A third volume, to be published later, will complete the trilogy West planned to call Cousin Rosamund: A Saga of the Century. The subtitle radiates the same kind of old-fashioned hubris that led Wells to write The Outline of History; the continuation of West's saga shows how thoroughly her grasp matched her reach...
Soviet agriculture is a continuing saga of failure. Last year's grain harvest was an estimated 170 million tons, down from 195 million in 1983 and well below the 1978 peak of 237 million. To offset agricultural shortages, the Soviet Union depends on imports. Moscow is expected to buy up to 52 million tons of grain, including at least 20 million from the U.S., in the period from July 1984 through June 1985, an increase of 52% over the previous year. Says Olin Robison, president of Middlebury College in Vermont and a Soviet expert: "A very sad fact about Soviet...
...Rice, who studied at the Sorbonne (though not very hard) before teaming with Lloyd Webber for Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (1967), the Chess saga began with a two-page plot outline in 1977. But neither Lloyd Webber nor Marvin Hamlisch (A Chorus Line) was interested in composing the score. As Rice, a large, genial Londoner of 40 who looks like a relaxed Anthony Burgess, recalled in New York last week, "Then in 1982 I heard that Benny and Bjorn were keen to write something beyond the confines of ABBA. They wanted the chance...
...riveting performance as Dith Pran, the Cambodian journalist in The Killing Fields, Haing S. Ngor, 35, earned an Academy Award nomination, but his newfound fame brought a far better reward: a completely unexpected reunion with his only remaining family. Ngor is a Cambodian physician whose own saga of surviving the brutal Khmer Rouge regime closely paralleled the story he enacts in the movie. By the time Ngor escaped from Cambodia in 1979, after four years of torture and forced labor, his entire family, as well as his fiancee, had been murdered by the Communists. Or so he thought, until...