It's a lousy precedent either way, and indicative, I think, of the way most fans are coming to view this saga now that it may be nearing the end: with ambivalence, and a sense of lousiness all around.
In Byatt's view, the saga's villain is Loki, Wagner's Loge, the trickster whom she turns into a connoisseur of chaos, destructive because of his slippery analytical intelligence.
Kennedy, who views this saga as a "national disgrace," has set his sights on changing laws in Missouri next, and plans to battle for regulation across the country.
In spring 1993, historian David Crowe sat spellbound in a darkened theater, viewing the saga of a Holocaust hero who risked business ruin and his own personal safety to save the lives of some 1,200 Jews he'd hired at his Polish enamelware factories.
Or it could merely be viewed as a saga of an old man and his shoes.
Ford became an industrial complex that was the envy of every industrialist in the world.In Innovation in Marketing, Theodore Levitt gave an alternative view of the Ford saga:[Henry Ford's real genius] was marketing.
What critics of capital punishment view as the sad saga of Earl Washington Jr., a mentally retarded man recently pardoned on DNA evidence 18 years into a life sentence for murder, is about to take one more, anticlimactic turn on Monday after he is finally released from prison in Virginia.
Wright liberates military history from the military expert's blinkered view and places the saga of the tank in human, political, philosophical and occasionally even metaphysical contexts that draw ideas into his book the way a magnet draws iron filings, and fill it with life.
Ms. Jones's ant's-eye view of a Hollywood saga allows her to tackle several subjects: rural deprivation, cultural exploitation, the gap between the feted and the fated, and, perhaps above all, the lure of dreams and the dream-industry.
As you might expect, the arrest in New York of Dominique Strauss-Kahn was a major topic of conversation, as was the related question of whether the next holder of DSK's post as head of the International Monetary Fund should be a European, as has been the convention until now.It quickly became clear that there is an Anglo-Saxon view of this whole saga, and a continental European one.
