Word: sagaser
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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But beneath the dense set-'em-right facts, the book is a hymn to the life of the mariner. Morison has gathered together into a 1,000-year epic the sagas of all those serendipitous seamen who set sail with visions of Cathay or a Northwest Passage-or at...
The star, unquestionably, was Ustinov. Without his insightful improvisation and mannered performance, the program would have been as forced as some of the old You Are There sagas or as deadly as a grade-school audio-visual lesson. Ustinov may do an encore when the series deals with King George...
JUST AS 1970 was the year of student films, 1971 promises to be the year of Indian sagas. (And not surprisingly, the same liberal obtuseness shines through both. Consider Stuart Hagmann's Strawberry Statement. It has more in common with Soldier Blue than the rousing Buffy Sainte-Marie theme songs...
The lake glittered under a westering sun and in the meadow close at hand peasants were reaping golden rye. In Finland the age of myth and legend is still just around the corner and doors stand open to the great winds which blow from the past out of the Kalevala...
Though Colonsay boasts only one store and a pub, McPhee writes, "things amplify. It may be the light." The mountains seem bigger than they are, the cairns like fortresses, the people like characters out of sagas, even though they are cattle farmers, shepherds, dock keepers, postmen, laborers-sometimes a little...