We don't live in the days of Viking sagas, though.
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Clinton's impeachment was the result of two converging legal sagas.
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Historical figures mingle with fictional ones in these family sagas.
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Sagas subway blog and lives near several lines in Brooklyn.
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Your work gives freshener, and color, and immediacy to our sagas.
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ANCIENT GREEK writings describe livestock eating seaweed, as do Icelandic sagas.
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Those sagas usually involve Vikings getting murdered or falling in battle.
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Farhad: This is one of those sagas that might never end.
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So never fret, lovers of premium cable adaptations of bestselling fantasy sagas.
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Try some of these "well, at least I didn't do that" sagas:
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He is the villain of all his own triumphant and disgraceful sagas.
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Since then, sagas like "Game of Thrones" have sexed up the fantasy genre.
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Here's Adam B. Vary's take on fan service and the conclusions of sagas.
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But that is still extraordinary; the sagas were not written in Shakespeare's time.
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The deal appears to end one of the region's longest running acquisition sagas.
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So I had sagas going in my head and I just escaped reality.
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It is jarring to think I could live through three sagas of impeachment.
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SARAH CARTERBOSTON Dear Sarah, Thick, sprawling multigenerational sagas seem ubiquitous in summer cottages.
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Sagas subway blog, said that he seldom sees people riding between cars anymore.
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Fatima Farheen Mirza's A Place for Us is everything I love about family sagas.
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The novel seems to approach the sweeping, multigenerational sagas of Zink's pen pal Franzen.
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It sounds like one of Mr Trump's sagas of Chinese cheating and American passivity.
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Twitter sagas have become a whole new way to consume bizarre and funny stories.
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It's an amazingly high number when put in the context of past impeachment sagas.
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Do you have any suggestions for both divinely engrossing and beautifully written family sagas?
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Last week, there were two different sagas playing out in the deadly burg of Riverdale.
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I love reading family sagas — the longer the better — that are wrapped around historical events.
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For Download, the crew offered up one of their EPIC sagas in trailer format, Last Riot.
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The result, say many Icelanders, is that they can read 303th-century sagas "like a newspaper".
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People who followed the sagas quickly learned that they were in for more than lurid details.
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This holiday sees the release of the final installment of the saga to end all sagas!
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Some of them adapt kids comic books, some adapt historical novels, and some adapt epic fantasy sagas.
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Despite the grave nature of this mission, "Infinity War" is also one of the funniest MCU sagas.
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It tells stories of conflict and chaos, with the recent history always leaking into the current sagas.
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I loved Marmaduke and was fascinated with the seemingly impenetrable sagas of Mark Trail and Prince Valiant.
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Botched orders and buggy launch-day software cemented its status as one of tech's most bizarre sagas.
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The ruling in February could provide a resolution to one of the kingdom's longest-running debt sagas.
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His duties will include recruiting new talent and helping shape the ongoing sagas of the company's heroes.
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But historians know very little about the berserkers apart from scattered Old Norse myths and epic sagas.
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Norse sagas refer to a sólarstein or "sunstone" that had special properties when held to the sky.
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Breaking Bad and its spinoff, Better Call Saul, are long-form sagas of moral corruption and ruin.
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Sagas blog, said he was unsure if the region had enough workers to complete all the jobs.
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In fact, the two sagas together pull back the curtain on how Silicon Valley moneymaking really works.
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There are references to them in the sagas, and some people today still occasionally erect the odd níðstang.
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Sagas subway blog, said he thought Mr. de Blasio would kill the streetcar plan after being re-elected.
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Carlin doesn't shy away from the granular and thus transforms the mundanity of history books into epic sagas.
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Without romantic sagas, how could Harrison claim we were in store for "the most dramatic rose ceremony ever"?
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These European sagas are the ones I grew up with, saw dramatized on television, and valorized in film.
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As in more conventional multigenerational sagas, one sees historical progress measured in freedoms won, prejudices softened, traditions modified.
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Either way, "Fugitive CEO: The Carlos Ghosn Story," tells one of the most compelling business sagas in decades.
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He looks like something straight out of the sagas crossed with Charles Manson, and his voice is positively skaldic.
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Most importantly, boy bands' music videos are just as entertaining as the weekly, two-hour sagas on the Bachelorette.
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It has been up for sale since early 2014 and is one of the region's most protracted acquisition sagas.
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Essay Family sagas write history through microcosm, tracing a clan's rise, survival and, more often than not, ultimate dissolution.
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"It boils down to being considerate to everybody," said Benjamin Kabak, who writes a subway blog, Second Ave. Sagas.
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Her sweeping sagas, arch, stylized prose and dissections of the Latin American character sometimes drew comparisons to Gabriel García Márquez.
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Ordinary Icelanders revel in their ability to use phrases from the sagas—written around eight centuries ago—in daily life.
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Indeed, descriptions of a tentacled sea monster can be found in 13th century Icelandic sagas and old Norse scientific works.
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Now, though, incessant updates and patches have turned the most popular titles into ever-evolving sagas, with ever-evolving choices.
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And we're finally trying to focus on the Donald Trump sleaziness sagas that the nation didn't deal with in 2016.
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The writers of the Icelandic sagas noticed Ok only once, when a man crossing Iceland on horseback passed it by.
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Think, too, of Themyscira from the Wonder Woman comics and the town of Macondo from Gabriel García Márquez's kaleidoscopic sagas.
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She handed me a 215 copy of "Crazy Ed's Sagas and Secrets of Desert Gold" by the late Eddie Bounsall.
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The McCarrick and Pell sagas are devastating blows to the morale and credibility of the Catholic hierarchy in the Anglophone world.
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"Epic Traditions of Africa," Stephen Belcher Grimm's Fairytales are great, the Icelandic sagas are essential and I'm always here for Grendel.
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Haunted by original sin and nourished by dreams of upward mobility, family sagas rarely extricate themselves from a sense of inevitability.
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Sagas subway blog, said the plan was the culmination of a long campaign to make New Yorkers care about subway signals.
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Since the spring (almost summer!) is upon us, it's time to break out the juicy sagas, the rom-coms, the "unputdownable" thrillers.
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I faithfully committed my Monday's to the sometimes torturous sagas of second tier hip hop artists in New York, Atlanta, and Hollywood.
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If you're writing sagas about undercover operatives and steamy romance plot lines, you're doing it because it's what you love to do.
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The recently wrapped sagas of Teen Wolf and Pretty Little Liars tried their hands at diversity over their 28255-or-more episodes.
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Devotees of the Marvel universe will doubtless delight in the film's various "Easter eggs": nods to the comic books and other sagas.
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This is how the book begins, as so many sagas in the Middle East do: Panic on the way to the airport.
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Where Sterne's "Tristram" digresses to prevent plot from happening, "CoDex 1962" sows plot upon plot, in the tradition of epics and sagas.
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Both Kennedy and Reagan understood the dramatic possibilities of the presidency-as-production, turning their hours upon the stage into national sagas.
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No doubt, both of the modern American impeachment sagas — Nixon's and Clinton's — have loomed over the Trump White House from its start.
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In an age of massive streaming sagas with encyclopedic plots and marathon run times, it runs a crisp 40 minutes or less.
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A 4K Ultra HD and HDR section is populated with 17 titles including a few from the Avenger and Star Wars sagas.
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All of its films are populated by comic book superheroes, and many of the stories they tell are loosely based on comics sagas.
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But as sagas go, it's short and to the point, with much left unexplained and unspoken, and a brisk 84-minute running time.
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Why it matters: The spotlight on the WNBA is brighter than ever, and these travel sagas aren't a good look for the league.
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A source told PEOPLE that, although "Kim is a very supportive wife" and "rarely complains," she could do without the social media sagas.
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Watch: HBO's new show "His Dark Materials" has a more rebellious, questioning outlook — adolescent, in a good way — than some other fantasy sagas.
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But the Manafort and Cohen sagas show how some Americans still relish seeing the richest among us treated like everyone else would be.
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Perhaps because in those earlier traumatic sagas, both the left and the right rushed in to twist them for their own ideological ends.
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The movie will resonate deeply, especially for young girls who are not used to seeing themselves at the center of world-saving sagas.
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Woven into sagas of love and betrayal, there is a push and pull between nationalism and religion, between historical tradition and modern consumerism.
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With that in mind, I reached out to Ben Kabak, the voice behind Second Avenue Sagas, a renowned transit blog in New York.
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A source tells PEOPLE that, while "Kim is a very supportive wife" and "rarely complains," she's not a fan of the social media sagas.
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But for this final episode of this final season of one of the best sagas on TV, Tyrion walked away as the sorrowful winner.
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SINCE the age of the medieval sagas, the stories told by Icelanders have helped enthrone their lonely mid-Atlantic island as a narrative superpower.
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Americans are more eager to impeach Trump now than they were at similar points in the impeachment sagas of Bill Clinton and Richard Nixon.
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The grammar may have changed little, but the sagas assume knowledge of kinship ties and myths that modern Icelanders must learn about at school.
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Yet while both studios are slated to release films that wrap up their respective sagas, only one seems to have a clear future: Marvel.
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But so many of the security crises and corruption sagas throughout the hemisphere have their roots in historical eras that have been deliberately obscured.
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That goes with long book sagas as well; I've read multiple long-running series and none of them live up to their early promise.
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The website also revealed Gudmundsson's lineage went back several hundred years further, to ancient ancestors mentioned in the Sagas, the famed medieval Icelandic stories.
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Maybe we've become culturally more enlightened, or at least more puritanical, but now our multiplexes are filled with found-footage horror and superhero sagas.
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But those stories have been ignored and the sagas of those victories have not been passed on to the generations who hunger for them.
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For answers, I reached out to Benjamin Kabak, whose transit blog Second Avenue Sagas is famous for taking deep dives into issues like this.
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WIRED took an in-depth look at the parallel sagas that caused four research teams to independently discover the bugs within months of each other.
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Less formal styles of oral tradition, such as Icelandic family sagas, have also been shown to retain a high degree of accuracy after 1,000 years.
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One of these Nordic sagas Mortensen was referring to, in particular, is the Völsunga saga, the late 13th century Icelandic tale of the Völsung clan.
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"LOL DOT just told the City Council Speaker to call 3-53-1," Ben Kabak, a transportation activist, wrote on his 2nd Avenue Sagas account.
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Starting Tuesday, Disney+ will have hundreds of library titles available, ranging from animated classics and Disney Channel TV shows to superhero blockbusters and intergalactic sagas.
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The backdrop for both sad sagas was arrogance, a misguided belief that they could get away with it because they were bigger than the game.
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Shooting the shit over Black Label Johnny Walker whiskey and a Krong Thip cigarette, the old timer is too modest to spin his own sagas.
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Summoning's music is heavily symphonic, heavily melodic, and heavily atmospheric, centered on glorious sagas and gloomy stories from Tolkien and other more obscure fantasy authors.
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In November, Disney+ launched with hundreds of library titles available, ranging from animated classics and Disney Channel TV shows to superhero blockbusters and intergalactic sagas.
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The cakes — which can fire many shots in sequence — are big sellers, and many bear the names of heroes and heroines from the Icelandic sagas.
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"He seemed to acknowledge this morning that he knows people are tweeting 'mean' things at him," said Ben Kabak, who runs the blog 2nd Ave Sagas.
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The Icelandic sagas tell of fairy houses to magical rings that control the world, and now one of those, the Wave, has landed on the internet.
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While the two brands have rarely failed to impress with their small screen superhero sagas, critics don't seem to love the latest addition to Netflix's library.
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From gigantic journeys like Godzilla (2014) to smaller sagas like A Simple Favor, the streaming service is offering up a number of choice movies this August.
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And his novels, whether they are kaleidoscopic histories, political thrillers, generational sagas or slapstick comedies, are remarkable for their ability to inhabit a host of perspectives.
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Yet here we are in the N.B.A. finals, at the sport's supposed pinnacle, confronted by one of the most dispiriting injury sagas #thisleague has ever witnessed.
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Recent shoots at Via, the developer's Far West Side luxury rental tower with an unusual pyramidal facade, have included Bollywood sagas and an upcoming Netflix project.
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The "Godfather" trilogy (showing throughout April) and Satyajit Ray's Apu series (at the end of April and in May) invite audiences to follow generation-spanning sagas.
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But in a month in which Congress was almost completely out of session, Trump was often the central and sole character in a litany of sagas.
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The second episode was to be broadcast Tuesday night, and the various Brown sagas would seem likely to provide particularly interesting fodder, should they be included.
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The second episode was to be broadcast Tuesday night, and the various Brown sagas would seem likely to provide particularly interesting fodder, should they be included.
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Developers just aren't producing the same type of epic sagas like Middle-Earth: Shadow of War or The Witcher 3 that are available on traditional gaming consoles.
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The bottom line: One of the past decade's strangest private equity sagas is making a comeback, and Uruguay's government looks to be on defense this time around.
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Further down the road, producer Ryan Murphy's next American Crime Story sagas (Katrina, Versace) and second Feud miniseries are also now being written and could get impacted.
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The biggest and most damning conclusion I had while ranking the pettiest, most delicious 2000s teen sagas was that the era was overflowing with white, horny teenagers.
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"But I don't think this is the last we're hearing of either Manafort or Cohen, I don't think this is the end of their sagas," he predicted.
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Though not much about early Finnish history is known, there are a few Viking sagas that mention areas of Finland and the people who inhabit those areas.
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Though the past seven months have ushered in an enormous shift in how society responds to episodes of sexual misconduct, these sagas show how much work remains.
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The poems in the collection, displaying fairly conventional scansion and suffused with mythic references from Classical tradition, ancient sagas and oral verse, typify Mr. Merwin's early style.
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Compressed into one urban site, the layers of Istanbul's pagan, Christian and Islamic pasts present endless narrative possibilities that historians can form into sweeping, commercially enticing sagas.
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This was in the wake of one of the strangest courtroom sagas in sports history, the trial of a 5-foot-11, 265-pound chef named Curtis Strong.
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I cannot recommend this highly enough to fans of family sagas, historical fiction, fiction set in East Asia, or really any reader who just wants a good story.
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Icelanders also looked self-consciously at their own history, producing the sagas: generation-spanning tales of family, honour, feuds and outlawry that fall somewhere between history and myth.
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While reading Derek Palacio's "The Mortifications," I tried, briefly, to catalog all the ways in which the story made direct, or even oblique, nods to sweeping, multigenerational sagas.
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Press Secretary Sarah Sanders, during her 100th White House press briefing Wednesday, maintained that President Trump has done "nothing wrong" in the Michael Cohen and Paul Manafort sagas.
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Ms. Jonsdottir said 15-year-old students were no longer assigned to read a volume from the Sagas of Icelanders, the medieval literature chronicling the island's early settlers.
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It may be difficult to imagine Iceland without its signature glaciers, immortalized in mediaeval sagas and literature such as Jules Verne's "Journey to the Center of the Earth".
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This is true even of works intended mainly for children, a category that includes — let's be honest — most of the superhero sagas that dominate pop culture's most lucrative precincts.
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Between them they covered design, painting, photography, lighting, embroidery, dyeing, printing and much else besides (Morris was also a poet, a translator of Icelandic sagas, and a Utopian socialist).
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But Mr. Trump and some of his advisers believe that some younger voters are unfamiliar with those sagas, and will be troubled by them when they learn the details.
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Given the time lags with which rate cuts affect the economy, if the Fed waits to see how these sagas play out, it will be too late to act.
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He says a big inspiration were the Norse Sagas, which—along archaeological and old sailing records—described the shape of the ship and the materials used in their construction.
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Such a vote was held in the last two impeachment sagas concerning Presidents Richard Nixon and Bill Clinton, but there is nothing in the Constitution that mandates such a vote.
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They note that the House didn't vote to formally open an impeachment inquiry after Speaker Nancy Pelosi's announcement last month, as it had in the Nixon and Clinton impeachment sagas.
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In the wake of the international success of Battle Royale, the young-adult literature market exploded with similar sagas about teens fighting each other to the death, by dictatorial edict.
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The first of Michener's mammoth sagas, "Hawaii" tells the Islands' history, from its creation by volcanic activity to its evolving identity as the most recent of the 50 US states.
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The Vikings focused particularly on the British Isles, and west to Iceland and Greenland, as memorialized in oral narratives and later recorded as the sagas by 13th-century Icelandic monks.
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Walt Disney launches its new Disney+ video streaming service Tuesday, with a deep content library, ranging from animated classics and Disney Channel TV shows to superhero blockbusters and intergalactic sagas.
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And I mean all kinds of narratives: classical epics and homey fairy tales, barroom ballads and chronicles of hopeless love, multigenerational family sagas and ghost stories with a body count.
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But while the elder Tolkien was a specialist in Chaucer and Anglo-Saxon sagas, the younger was an authority, above all, on the reams of writing that his father produced.
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The first of Michener's mammoth sagas, "Hawaii" tells the islands' history, from its creation by volcanic activity to its evolving identity as the most recent of the 50 US states.
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They exist in a lawless realm of cinema, immune to the kind of scrutiny reserved for beloved musicals created by Oscar-winning filmmakers — meow — or space sagas with lifelong fans.
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A look at the net favorability rating changes for Clinton and Trump during their impeachment sagas indicates that Clinton was hurt by impeachment in a way that Trump hasn't been.
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Recent dives into the corporate sagas of Theranos and Vice have made it clear that the difference between scamming and savvy business maneuvering is all in the eye of the investor.
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Remember that comic book superhero sagas, like folktales and religious parables, are fundamentally moralistic: They pit Good in the fight against Evil, and in the US that story never gets old.
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Fans who earnestly applaud his lost affairs and biblical sagas for their scale and sophistication, especially hetero men who take him as a romantic role model, should consider modernizing their taste.
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The names that become sagas, or ciphers for something else; the stories of Madeleine McCann and Suzy Lamplugh—cases that sustain their own cottage industry of wild speculation and grim intrigue.
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The senators also urged their House colleagues to provide Trump and House Republicans with the same powers that past presidents and their allies received in the Clinton and Nixon impeachment sagas.
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This article originally appeared on VICE Sports UK. If we lived in the days of the Viking sagas, Zlatan Ibrahimovic would have had half a library dedicated to him by now.
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Directed by Sam Mendes, this show uses the vast scope and the small, character-defining detail of great family sagas in fiction, rendered in an iron-grip narrative that never slackens.
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The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance just hit Netflix and it's bringing back the lore-heavy fantasy adventure sagas we grew up watching, but this time with a major glow up.
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The TNT analysts Charles Barkley and Shaquille O'Neal, both of whom navigated their own complicated trade sagas as players, were openly critical of Davis and Paul throughout their All-Star duty.
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Trump on Friday was consumed by questions about whether he had posed as imaginary individuals with those names in order to deal with reporters' queries about his love life or personal sagas.
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"This epic secondary storyline, imagined from one of the world's most famous wizarding sagas, has maintained its popularity with fans for years," Fathom Events Chief Content and Programming Officer Gordon Synn said.
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Several settlements and landmarks along Iceland's coast still bear names that refer to walruses, and a few of the medieval Sagas (the stories of the island's early settler families) even mention them.
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If you're an avid watcher of Khloé and Kourtney's Snapchat sagas at the gym, you're probably used to watching the two of them mysteriously refer to each other as Jane and Suzanne.
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I can admit, there is a relief in the kind of thematic reorientation the show is working toward: Young black boys and single black mothers are rarely the focus of superhero sagas.
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This issue didn't arise in the Nixon or Clinton sagas; the Twenty-Second Amendment forbids any person from being elected president more than twice and both men were already serving their second terms.
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That Louise has a French mother and calls her son by the Gallic endearment "joujou," or toy, further suggests that the young Mr. Shaffer may have had Cocteau's tortured family sagas in mind.
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Think of the sagas of Barbecue Becky and Permit Patty, who tried to call the police on innocent black citizens (including an eight-year-old girl) and were publicly shamed for their cruelty.
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The regional conventions that once catered primary to nerdy collectors are now essential promotional opportunities for rolling out and hyping Hollywood movies and television shows depicting superhero sagas, sci-fi fantasias, and more.
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The story isn't flashy and neither is the animation in "Long Way North," qualities that give the film a certain low-key charm in an age of fast-moving sagas eye-poppingly served.
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But both sagas are interwoven with Russia: Trump himself has linked Comey's firing to Russia, and Flynn pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about conversations with the Russian ambassador during the transition.
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The production is a timely reminder that for a fraction of the cost of big-budget TV and movies, theater can still hold its own when it comes to larger-than-life sagas.
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Just as it was shorthand for the sagas that surround it, be they of Joan of Arc, Napoleon or de Gaulle, which also provide the elements of a sartorial vocabulary all designers share.
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UNDER RED SKIES Three Generations of Life, Loss, and Hope in China By Karoline Kan The subtitle of Karoline Kan's bracingly forthright memoir flags one intended audience: fans of multigenerational Chinese family sagas.
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"As one of the greatest sagas in cinema history reaches its climax, it's concerning that 'Star Wars' has lately been generating more drama off screen than on," writes Steve Rose for The Guardian.
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The twin sagas of Brexit and the trade war between the United States and China have shaped risk sentiment in global financial markets this year, with emerging market assets particularly sensitive to developments.
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In 2017, Musou games are a paradox, popular enough to continue but rarely discussed, possibly the most prolific franchise in all of gaming but without any of the cultural cachet similarly robust sagas possess.
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"Whether by design, coincidence, or a combination of the two, the overlap of two major cinematic sagas coming to an end puts a strong exclamation point on the end of an era," Robbins said.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Rob Sheffield's excellent 40-year retrospective piece in Rolling Stone on Fleetwood Mac's Rumours reveals how context determines reception: national crises highlight the political nature of erotic sagas.
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There's not much case law on the Pennsylvania rules, and it's not strictly relevant to PPG's role as an aggressor, but it has been invoked in a handful of corporate sagas over the years.
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Sagas subway blog, described the action plan's spending on signals as "token" and said it failed to address the key issue: There is as yet no plan to overhaul signals at a faster rate.
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This is the most confident performance we've seen from him since Zoya Akhtar's "Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara", and his performance lends credence to what would otherwise be just another one of the overdone revenge sagas.
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But art has other ways to humanize time's passage, forms emphasizing lines of continuity and species of kinship that family sagas — still the dominant genre for putting history's course on an individual scale — largely ignore.
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There is a point in all these antihero sagas, around the finale, where the viewing process turns into a kind of moral people's court, where fans debate the precise retributive price the series should exact.
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There's an unavoidable tension in these mini-sagas between the need to quickly introduce readers to a bizarre setting and the need for an engaging narrative arc — but nearly all of them pull it off.
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Green says the film is interested in understanding why JonBenét is still on tabloid covers 20 years after her death, and why people (including herself and her cast) are so taken in by true crime sagas.
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Scholars of the Sagas point to the impact of Gaelic writings and believe it is not coincidental that Ireland and Iceland were the only places in western Europe where oral traditions were written down this way.
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Thus began one of the stranger recent sagas in American celebrity bootstrapping as Mr. Cyrus willed his family (six Cyrus children in all) — and especially the daughter born Destiny Hope Cyrus — into becoming a household name.
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Attracted to art from an early age, Mr. Kinstler dropped out of high school at 15 to work in the comic-book industry, illustrating lots of western sagas but also titles like Space Detective and Hawkman.
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In some iteration, I've written love stories, polemics, historical novels, family sagas … The fact that people are murdered and the reader is told why slots me into the thriller category, and I'm absolutely fine with that.
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The lobby and guest rooms are dotted with artworks inspired by Icelandic sagas; they are by Pall Gudmundsson, a local artist known for carving faces (of everyone from famous Vikings to Björk) into the valley's boulders.
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The CommunicationsWe learned during the various protracted legal sagas (Ulbricht's, Force's, and Bridges's) that several undercover agents from several different branches of the Department of Justice went undercover on both Silk Road and the Silk Road forums.
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The story moves pell-mell through the sagas of the author's siblings, including, with little exploration of the emotions involved, one sister's "heavy bitterness" toward their father and Scoblic's own attempt "to heal" old wounds with him.
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Many of our sagas are about outlaws—there is even a statue of the Outlaw in Reykjavík, next to the National Museum—and the idea of the outlaw here is similar to the idea of the artist.
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We've also seen a fascination with true crime sagas like The Jinx or Making a Murderer, but those are stories about people that aren't already widely known, and the shows themselves seem to burn bright and fade out.
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The place has spun stories around itself since the Vikings wrote down their Sagas, tales of family lineages and heroic deeds, in the 12th century — some of which went on to inspire a novelist named George R.R. Martin.
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Oh nothing, just some snow in my eye … As with many epic sagas, the story and action in "Game of Thrones" are driven largely by characters moving toward and eventually becoming the people they are supposed to be.
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It is still focused on the continuing sagas of Steven Avery and his nephew Brendan Dassey, who were convicted of murdering Teresa Halbach, but the engine of the story has shifted to one of Avery's lawyers, Kathleen Zellner.
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It raises a question that could be asked of all these shows: Since their stories could all be told in shorter and more straightforward ways without losing any significant facts, what's gained by turning them into multipart sagas?
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The headlines surrounding the Peters and Cherry sagas could not have been further from what the NHL envisioned when it launched its "Hockey Is For Everyone" initiative in 2017, a campaign rooted in making the sport more inclusive.
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DESANTIS It's said that novels (especially four-part-sagas) are good tools for world-building, but one of the surprises here for me is the way in which this dramatization brings that aspect of the book to life.
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More confirmed Norse sites would also enable historians to verify and confirm the ancient Norse sagas—grand tales of red-haired adventurers sailing off to foreign lands, such as "Vinland," which may actually be the East Coast of Canada.
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"Relics and Rarities" consisted of only six episodes and a core cast of Julia Dennis ("Lofty Dreams"), Tommy Walker ("Daredevil"), Xander Jeanneret ("Sagas of Sundry"), and Jasmine Bhullar, a famed Twitch streamer, as well as a weekly celebrity guest.
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These stories are not 40,000-word epic sagas about colorful men and their long journeys by truck, boat, or sled; they are shorter, on the Internet, with smaller budgets, and they are more likely to be written by women.
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The exultation of these Indian sagas reminded me of a high point in my own experience: years ago, I used to jog through Southern Manhattan, playing a tape of a great romantic symphony in on my Walkman cassette player.
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Much like the Academy Awards, which usually reward stories about "real people" over sci-fi and fantasy (with 25.8's Best Oscar win for The Shape of Water being a notable exception), musical theater audiences tend to scoff at spacey sagas.
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At the Elysee, he was in charge of advising Macron on the French government's vast portfolio of stakes in French companies, having to deal with hot corporate sagas such as Renault-Nissan, as well as handling relations with Big Tech.
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Thrones of Britannia is supposed to be the start of a new line of focused, historically specific Total War games—Total War Sagas—that will exist alongside the giant sandbox campaigns of games like Rome 2 or Total War: Warhammer.
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Unlike so many other prestige dramas, fantasy sagas, and (pseudo) historical epics, it considered seriously how women and girls might fit into this patriarchal, misogynistic world, how they might be shaped by it, and how they might shape it in turn.
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But "Cursed Child" stands out because of the scale of the investment — it cost more to bring to Broadway than any other nonmusical play — and because it is part of one of the most popular, and profitable, storytelling sagas in years.
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For anyone who isn't raptly following one of the weirdest sagas in tech news, Peter Thiel is a canny entrepreneur with a side interest in libertarian sea colonies, radical life extension through vampiric blood transfusions, and unsettling comments about women's suffrage.
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Since then, archaeologists, following up clues in the histories known as the sagas, have been hunting for the holy grail of other Viking, or Norse, landmarks in the Americas that would have existed 500 years before Columbus, to no avail.
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And wending through all these personal sagas are half-mythical characters and archetypes hidden amid mundanity: griots and ghosts; Cinnamon's famous "hoodoo"-practicing grandparents; and the Wanderer itself, which takes on different names and incarnations as past and present merge.
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It's becoming one of corporate America's strangest sagas: Xerox said last night that, contrary to the terms of the settlement it reached on Tuesday with the activist investors Carl Icahn and Darwin Deason, its C.E.O. and board are staying put.
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Sagas and a critic of the project's high cost, recently tweeted a photo of a cop talking to El Chapo, a celebrated tunneller, after he was extradited to New York: "So we just opened this new subway," the caption read.
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By ranging over decades, family sagas offer general as well as personal history, giving Sullivan an opportunity to sketch Boston's past, especially the shameful aspects that affect her characters: the busing crisis and the scandals in the Roman Catholic Church.
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Things don't always end well in these sagas—to wit, the destruction of New York City, in "Fail Safe," and of civilization, in "Strangelove"—but the underlying message is that the President always has the interests of the American people at heart.
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Jumping from Reformation-era Brazil to Puritan New England to Langston Hughes's Harlem, it is that rare book of short fiction with an epic intuition of time, accomplishing in a handful of inspired, intimate portraits what many sagas only manage in reams.
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The lore-heavy fantasy adventure sagas we grew up watching have come a long way since we were kids, and now they are catering to our love of binge-able series with Netflix's reboot of the '80s cult classic, The Dark Crystal.
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Writers produced big, clever, glossy sagas of family and friendship, in a fretfully bravura style that reached its fullest expression in books like "White Teeth," by Zadie Smith; "The Corrections," by Jonathan Franzen; and "A Visit From the Goon Squad," by Jennifer Egan.
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The reason he is not more famous—not the anti-hero of a Martin Scorsese film or an HBO mini-series—is that he was a go-between, a fixer and a troubleshooter: a supporting character in the sagas of underworld godfathers and Hollywood moguls.
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While nowadays its over-the-top sagas and carefully crafted redemption stories make it seem more like live theater than anything else, there was once a time when the audience—and even some wrestlers—couldn't separate the in-the-ring theatrics from real life.
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Westworld's Shogun World, for instance, calls back to an earlier reinvention of the Western: the 1960s Sergio Leone movies about an outlaw coming to town and John Sturges' The Magnificent Seven, which were themselves adapted from Kurosawa's sagas of corrupted samurai and existential swordplay.
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And the approach could offer the best of both worlds: Star Wars can take advantage of the serialized approach that has served it so well, but with radically different filmmakers in charge of each series, they could each become "mini-sagas" in their own right.
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This week Kate Clark and Alex Wilhelm dug into the latest, namely big news on the fund front from folks you know, two China-based companies going public on domestic exchanges and what's next in the long-running sagas of getting Uber and Slack public.
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Chinese soap operas and Korean romantic comedies, British conspiracy thrillers, Indian gangster sagas, moody Scandinavian ghost stories, Mexican melodramas, Spanish crime capers, French children's shows and Japanese anime — the only bar to entry is how many TV and streaming subscriptions you're willing to spring for.
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Two of the most successful completed sagas of the last 20 years, Robin Hobb's Farseer novels and Tad Williams's "Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn," balance political machinations that would be at home in Shakespeare's histories and larger world stories about the death and life of magic.
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The abuse of minors by pedophile priests has been among the most painful sagas of our time, the horror compounded by the knowledge that hierarchs could have stopped the predators if only they had not chosen for so long to cover up their actions.
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I'd met Bland, who was white, almost ten years before, when I was still a boy on the plantation, sometimes called on by my father to entertain his fellow-Quality with my miracles of memory—card tricks, flawless recitations, and oral sagas conjured from nothing.
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The case has the potential to reopen one of the longest-running and most painful sagas in the bank's recent history, which has seen RBS criticized by lawmakers and forced to set up a 400 million pound ($511 million) compensation scheme over its treatment of small businesses.
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Had the invading Norsemen not destroyed what literature may have been kept by the eremitic Celtic monks known as papar, who were there before the Norse according to medieval sagas, we might possess a more vivid record of Katla's eruptions than ice cores and tree carbon.
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Comparisons to Tolkien and George R. R. Martin aside, the works are a testament to the breadth of the three sisters' (and, in this case, their brother Branwell's) creativity — and a reminder that, lamentably, their fantasy sagas have yet to be published in a single collection.
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On this list, you'll find animated comedies (Abominable), celebrations of real-life heroes (Harriet), LGBTQ-focused dramas (Portrait of A Lady On Fire), coming of age stories (How To Build A Girl) supernatural romances (Atlantics), explorations of identity (Hala), and family sagas (Blow The Man Down).
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The Viking era is enjoying a renaissance among Norwegians and foreign visitors, buoyed in part by television series like "Vikings," on HBO; "The Last Kingdom," on Netflix; "Game of Thrones," with characters and plots that echo the sagas; and "Beforeigners," a new Norwegian-language series from HBO.
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Gone was the slapstick silliness of most children's cartoons, in were sprawling sagas full of drama, character development, and overblown fight scenes in which planets were destroyed by colorful heroes; and villains were as dedicated to hurting each other as they were to excruciatingly long pre-fight dialogue.
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Ultimately, UnReal absolves Rachel and Coleman of the part they played in Romeo's shooting, focusing on their regret instead — and immediately turning its lens back to their sagas, like whether or not Romeo's shooting might jeopardize the show, and all the other white people who work on it.
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At the end of one of the strangest sagas in sports history—one that saw Rodriguez transition from prize signing to MVP to postseason goat to October redemption story to drug cheat to re-embraced iconoclast—Cashman's gesture scanned as generosity, an attempt to tidy up a messy story.
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The Old Testament tale of Exodus — the slaves' flight from Egypt and their salvation in the desert — may be the most epic of all such sagas, and the Puritans aboard the Mayflower thought of their flight from King James as an exodus of the chosen people fleeing their pharaoh.
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"The Voyage of the Dawn Treader" is a bonkers sea expedition in the tradition of the Old Norse sagas, following the good ship Dawn Treader as she navigates through magical archipelagos filled with slave traders and dragons and merpeople on her way to the edge of the world.
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While it was one of the most painful sagas in American history, Bloomberg admitted he'd never heard of it until traveling to Tulsa recently to help underscore the point that so many mass killings of African Americans between 1917 and 1923 were never taught in high schools and colleges.
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Approaching sagas of a potential government shutdown, raising the debt ceiling and a moment of truth in the Senate over the potential "nuclear option" confirmation of Supreme Court pick Neil Gorsuch will severely test the political alacrity of a White House already exposed by the busted bid to repeal Obamacare.
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In production after production, whether in a comprehensive season of time-honored tragedies at the Almeida Theater in North London or in a tiny playhouse in West London (the Gate) that offered up a "Medea" with a mighty difference, these sagas of slaughter, retribution and revenge rang out with extraordinary vigor.
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For Star, which has maintained its leadership position in India's general entertainment space on a staple of long-running and melodramatic family sagas, "POW - Bandhi Yuddh Ke" is also an attempt to break out of the clutter and attract a younger audience increasingly lured by digital players like Netflix and Amazon.
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Following on the heels of Disney's surprise breakout hit with "Guardians of the Galaxy" and Fox's big box office bonanza with "Deadpool" (both lesser known titles in the Marvel catalog), the practice of going with something a bit more off-the-beaten path when it comes to superhero sagas may not be a bad idea.
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One of the more complex and depressing legal sagas of the last several decades was dealt a severe blow Monday: A US appeals court ruled that Chevron will not have to pay a group of indigenous Ecuadorians $9.5 billion for environmental destruction related to oil drilling in the Lago Agrio area of the Amazon rainforest.
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It's a novel that seems to have been inspired by such disparate family sagas as Gabriel García Márquez's "One Hundred Years of Solitude," Alex Haley's "Roots" and Thomas Mann's "Buddenbrooks," a novel that sets itself the daunting task of tracing the legacy of sorrow that slavery has left on eight generations of one family.
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But unless Ms Weidel manages to strong-arm Mr Gauland and present a genuinely moderate and fresh face, it also makes the party off-putting to all but its core voters and raises the chances of new sagas like the Höcke one; after all, he is by no means the most right-wing figure in the party.
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Most emo screamers vent romantic anxiety with more self-regarding self-loathing than any listener who doesn't identify completely can stand; these guys subtract the content while maintaining the emotional impulse, their mood equally pained and sensitive for no good reason other than they regard their own lives as sweeping, anthemic, and likely doomed heroic sagas, as their stylistic conventions have taught them to do.
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To speak about the economy with any efficacy, or so as to provide any entertainment, the senator would have to take all the ugly, corrupt, almost animal malfeasance that lurks below the shiny machined surfaces of terminology like "mortgage-backed securities" and "predatory lending," and breathe it into life, into lives, into real-seeming sagas of real people who'd been duped, indebted, and dispossessed—hardworking, American, etc.
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