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...class there is always another question, another question to follow your answer," Kingsfield warns the class in characteristically icy tones. "Yes, you are on a treadmill." Writer/director Bridges glibly tells screening audiences that therein lies the key to the saga: Life is one series of unanswered questions...
...seemed almost too good to be true. After a summer of roller coasting up and down, the Wholesale Price Index for September dropped 1.5%, seasonally adjusted-its steepest slide in a quarter-century. Prices of farm goods, the worst culprits in this year's inflationary saga, led the decline, dropping 5.2%. Costs for livestock, corn, vegetables, fruit, live poultry and eggs were all substantially lower...
Died. Gladys Bertha ("G.B.") Stern, 83, prolific, witty British novelist who wrote an average of one novel a year between 1920 and 1964; in Wallingford, England. Stern was best known for Monogram, The Rueful Mating and a five-book family saga, The Matriarch, that became a successful London play and a Hollywood movie...
...movies remained as powerful and functional as bullets. Nor did Ford restrict himself to a single genre. In six years he directed four classic films: The Informer, a tragedy of the Irish uprising; Stagecoach, the most emulated western of all time; The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck's saga of the Okies; and Eugene O'Neill's sea drama, The Long Voyage Home...
BADGE 373, according to the credits, is "inspired by the exploits of Eddie Egan," the former New York cop whose fictionalized doings were also the basis for The French Connection. But inspired is not a word to be employed anywhere near this flat-footed flatfoot saga...