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...GEORGE LUCAS carries through on his grandiose plans, the saga of Star Wars could drag on longer than the Thirty Years War. But if the rest of the installments in the series are as good as the two released to date, Lucas can prolong his battles in space as long as he wants--or as long as movie-goers continue to flock to the films in record numbers...
CHAPTER 3: The Saga's Strange Ending...
...divorce. It is hard to tell who suffers more, the wandering parents or their children. Delivering follows two thoroughly upset brothers on their newspaper route the morning after their mother and father noisily called it quits. In the title novella, Finding a Girl in America, Dubus picks up the saga of Hank Allison that he began in two earlier volumes of stories. Experiments in consensual philandering ultimately broke up the Allison marriage. Now Hank, 35, lives alone, teaches at a small Massachusetts college and has sequential affairs with matriculating young women: "What had been spice in his married twenties...
...Reporter-Researcher Brigid O'Hara-Forster in New York City, the Mount St. Helens saga was her third cover story in five weeks, and one of dozens in a long career of tracking wars and politics-but it was her first cover story to have no villains, only victims. "It put our merely human failings and frailties in perspective," she said. "It is literally inhuman...
...would have thought that this prism of bliss is a mere pause amid tumult, a respite in a plot-clogged saga of murder and revenge, which features, among a good many other things, poison asps, opium, the collapse into rubble of an entire Indian temple? With Natalia Makarova's direction, the American Ballet Theater has produced the full-length La Bayadére, at a cost of about $500,000. American balletgoers are not used to such a florid, densely populated drama. To appreciate it, one must be prepared for a very full, surprising experience. The evening...