Word: sagas
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...Long Ships, a riotous viking sea saga, has impossible acting, a preposterous script, some eminently seeworthy ship reconstructions, and more enjoyable bloody foolishness than many an epic costing three times as much...
...Valley Forge, the winning of the West, the Civil War and reconstruction, populism, World Wars I and II, and the Affluent Society. Nobody does this; the political novel (apart from the quickie or ad hoc novel like Fail-Safe) has been abandoned by U.S. writers along with the family saga...
...That opening paragraph under U.S. BUSINESS fooled me for a minute. I thought maybe it was a new Ian Fleming saga of James Bond's exploits: you know-craggy face, fast car, exotic smokes...
FUNNY GIRL. The many-splendored talents of Barbra Streisand not only recreate the saga of famed Comedienne Fanny Brice but mark the shining birth of the theater's new girl for all seasons...
...afternoon of the last day before the escape, Gaspard is suddenly called to the warden's office. Two hours later he returns to the cells, insisting he has said nothing to betray his comrades, and the drama hurtles toward a shock climax that suddenly becomes less a saga of physical endurance than a test of one man's moral strength...