Word: sagaser
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That surreal scene, captured on film by the bank's automatic cameras, was the Symbionese Liberation Army's way of introducing Patricia Campbell Hearst, 20, to the world in their role for her as an armed terrorist. It was the latest bizarre development in what had already become one of...
While pretending to capture the air of cynicism and moral defeat that has arisen in the age of Watergate, Hollywood producers have seized on the opportunity to create brutal action epics, devoid of sense or feeling save the kick of violence. Audiences could once turn to the screen for fables...
A genial man with a large pipe who liked to gather with friends and translate Icelandic sagas, Tolkien bore all this stoically. He worked away at other books (Silmarillion and Akallabeth, tales about the creation and early history of Middle-earth, to be published posthumously). But he did point out...
Fashionable French film directors (Rohmer, Truffaut) are now busily reinventing the 19th century novel of feeling for cinema audiences, who, it sometimes seems, no longer read. One can hardly blame Robert Crichton, therefore, if he puts between hard covers the makings of one of those harrowing, heartwarming 1930s film sagas...
Although it uses the same title, Lady Sings the Blues has practically no other resemblance to the gusty Holiday autobiography published in 1956, three years before she died. The life and the lady have been slicked up and toned down, in the best tradition of such tears and tinsel sagas...