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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Thing of Booty | 6/12/1964 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Marxist Myth of Mexico | 6/5/1964 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 1, 1964 | 5/1/1964 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater, Records, Books, Best Sellers: TELEVISION | 4/24/1964 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Honor Among Thieves | 4/24/1964 | See Source »

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