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...Shcharansky saga began in 1974 when--a day after his wedding--his wife Avital was expelled from the country, while his application to emigrate was denied. Two years later, Shcharansky joined the underground Helsinki Watchdog Committee, which attempted to monitor Soviet violations of the Helsinki Final Act, a human rights charter signed a year earlier by 35 countries, including the U.S.S.R. If honored, that country would have permitted Shcharansky, along with other citizens with family in other countries to emigrate...
...STORY is a familiar one in modern America. A small business with an excellent product becomes wildly popular. To keep up with outrageous demand, the owners eventually expand, mass produce, and create a "label." Things are never quite the same again. Witness the saga of Ray Kroc's old hamburger stand or Mr. L.L. Bean's barn up in Freeport. Steve's resisted the clutches of materialistic expansionism for several years, sticking it out in original digs in Somerville...
...film achieves success in the sheer exultation manifest by its splendiferous imagery. The finely tuned character acting and the bawdy deadpan script enable the movie to sustain a smoothly paved course. And Zeze Motta as the legendary figure Xica de Silva transforms a vibrant period piece into an electric saga that transcends time...
...boardroom saga began last month with a bid of some $1.5 billion by Bendix's ambitious chairman, William Agee, 44, to buy Martin Marietta and thereby acquire that firm's prestigious and profitable defense business. Stung by Agee's move, Marietta President Thomas Pownall, 60, launched a counteroffer of about $1.5 billion to buy Bendix instead. In addition, he persuaded United Technologies' chairman, Harry Gray, 62, who over the years had built his company into a $14 billion conglomerate with a string of successful takeover raids, to make a parallel bid for Bendix...
...this empurpled mode, relentlessly maintained throughout the novel (her 14th), that Oates has undertaken to recount the saga of the five nubile Zinn sisters of Bloodsmoor Valley, Pa., circa 1880. For these young ladies, the trajectory of love follows the customarily lunatic lines of an Oates romance. The youngest Zinn, Deirdre, is snatched away by a stranger in "an outlaw balloon of sinister black-silken hue" as she sits crocheting in a gazebo. Sister Malvinia escapes the toils of Victorian family life in her own way: she makes a career as an actress and is courted by a singularly repulsive...