Word: sagaser
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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The hundred or so pages that take Wilson through his Coast Guard years would make a fine short sea novel. The writing, in general, is dogged, honest and unbrilliant, and to chronicle the Greenland patrol, those qualities are sufficient. The sea supplies the power and depth missing in his dry...
Attempts to use real contemporary music in musicals-like Richard Lester's two Beatles movies or Ken Russell's Tommy-have been random. A Chorus Line, hottest ticket on Broadway and destined to be filmed, is just a slick version of 1930s tears-and-tinsel show biz sagas...
So she perversely tells a tale against tale telling. In Usurpation (Other People's Stories) the narrator is "the sort of ignorant and acquisitive being who moons after magical tales." Soon she is buffeted by stories heard at a reading by a famous author, pressed on her in manuscript...
He had a point, and it is probably the reason why, of all the great events in American history, the first of them has received the least attention from films and television. The mildest praise you can offer The Adams Chronicles (PBS, Tuesdays, 9 p.m., E.S.T.) is that it is...
Earlier Graham feature films were generally fictional sagas of personal conversion, complete with an inserted sermon delivered by Billy. By contrast, The Hiding Place is the true story of two pious Dutch Protestant spinsters who hid Jews from the Nazis in their Haarlem home during World War II, and were...