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...world's latest refugee saga began three weeks ago, when an estimated 10,800 Cubans jammed into the Peruvian embassy compound in Havana seeking political asylum after guards were temporarily removed from the embassy's gates. The sight of these would-be exiles, demanding to leave Fidel Castro's so-called paradise, was deeply embarrassing to the Cuban President. With the world watching, he had no choice but to grant them exit visas. Eight nations eventually agreed to admit 6,250 of the exiles; the U.S. said that it would take 3,500, the largest single group...
...which he told his story to Hudlin's interviewer seven years ago. This is not the filmmaker's fault, for when he made the film he, too, did not know what would become of his extraordinary classmate who bureaucratically didn't exist. But the incompleteness of River's saga brings to our attention the important point that no matter what Center Screen's press releases or posters say, this film cannot be accurately characterized as simply the account of one Black man's story at Yale. Only about ten minutes of the movie center around Rivers specifically. Hudlin instead uses...
...hilarious goings-on around the garbage truck. Garbage Is My Life may turn up on ABC, and Garbage may air on NBC. Many viewers may have an unhappy sense of déjà vu. The Silverman network also has a fondness for dogs. Here's Boomer, the saga of the world's smartest mutt, is already on the schedule, and next year it may be frolicking with the world's three smartest Dobermans, the detective stars of-yes-The Dobermans. Arfs gratia arfis...
...history of the institution, The Uncertain Profession: Harvard and the Search for Educational Authority, Powell chronicles the metamorphosis of the "Division of Education," which limped through the first 20 years of the century under the burden of unending criticism, into a respected graduate school. The saga, one of bitter disagreement and jarring philosophical gyrations, provides a sober backdrop for the current dissatisfaction with efforts to improve American education...
...real life, hostage taking, airliner hijackings and political assassinations are all too true to be good; but they make splendid fiction. Indeed, with a big assist from the headlines, the terrorist saga has become one of thriller literature's most prolific genres. This spring has exploded with more than a dozen heist-and-ransom adventures whose plots range from setting the North Sea oilfields afire to capturing U.S. nuclear plants. In one, a team of thugs heists Manhattan, no less; in another, Muslim-backed bullyboys hold Queen Elizabeth II hostage. The authors tend to go in for archetype casting...