Sentences with phrase «american saga»

Their most successful work, «Jackson Pollock: An American Saga», won the Pulitzer Prize for biography in 1991, and was the basis of the Academy Award - winning film «Pollock» starring Ed Harris.

It was cemented in Jackson Pollock: An American Saga, the Pulitzer Prize - winning biography written by Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith, and published in 1989.

The play refers to Pollock having homosexual contact during a gangbang, hinting at Pollock's queer side, which he sometimes enjoyed in Tennessee's company in the West Village and in Provincetown, as has been discussed in a biography, Jackson Pollock: An American Saga, by Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith.

Jackson Pollock: An American Saga.

His 1991 publication Jackson Pollock: An American Saga (with Gregory White Smith) won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography, and was a National Book Award Finalist in Nonfiction.

Jackson Pollock An American Saga, by Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith.

Today, Ubisoft announced the release of Assassin's Creed Birth of a New World — The American Saga available for Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and Windows PC, from October 3rd, 2014.

Assassin's Creed Birth of a New World — The American Saga is an exclusive compilation of the three Assassin's Creed games that witnessed the birth of modern America, and includes:

Assassin's Creed - Birth of a New World - The American Saga Collection will see three of their titles go up for sale in a «killer» bundle.

Assassin's Creed Birth of a New World — The American Saga is an exclusive compilation of the three Assassin's Creed games that witnessed the birth of modern America,...

Ubisoft has announced the release of Assassin's Creed Birth of a New World — The American Saga, a collection of games available for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC, from October 3rd, 2014.

Assassin's Creed Rogue completes the North American saga started with Assassin's Creed III and Assassin's Creed IV Black Flag and gives previous - generation console owners an exclusive opportunity to experience fan - requested features, such as playing as a Templar.»

I'm just a novelist with a vision of how to continue this American saga.

For readers who love Erik Larson and David McCullough, The Race Underground is peopled with the famous, like Boss Tweed, and Thomas Edison, a great American saga of two rival American cities, the powerful interests within, and an invention that changed the lives of millions.

The Race Underground is a great American saga of two rival American cities, their rich, powerful and sometimes corrupt interests, and an invention that changed the lives of millions.

In this vibrant Mexican American saga, intergenerational family secrets and hopes are revealed through the eyes of adolescent Lala.

A preeminent tale in an essential American saga.

Liberals and Democrats are supposed to talk like President Obama, who said in his famous 2004 convention speech: «Alongside our famous individualism, there's another ingredient in the American saga — a belief that we're all connected as one people.»

Now with the release of Rabbit Is Rich (Knopf, 467 pp., $ 13.95), it is fair to say that Updike's «Rabbit» books are forming an American saga.

War II's segregated militaries, shame has always been a well - deserved element in the American saga, alongside true nobility.

The classic American theme of self - improvement stands out prominently, as does faith in education, and an evangelical streak of earnestness that runs throughout the American saga....

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Combined with the original, «Part II» proves that this family saga is one of the greatest American stories ever told.

Many white Americans still refuse to embrace their black neighbors as equals and so the saga of racism, prejudice and inequality will continue.

The American Atheists maintain that their latest entry in the annual «War on Christmas» saga is a message to other atheists that they are not alone.

Beneath the all - American success story of a football coach lies a saga of pain and regret that clearly resonates with the hundreds of thousands of men who've become Promise Keepers.

However, the classicists regarded the American Catholic immigrant saga as essentially a story of success.

As Dixon Wecter remarks in The Saga of American Society, TheCountry Club has never assumed a place name because «it is sui generis, like the roc's egg.»)

AAAS Presidential Address: Mina Rees, «The Saga of American Universities: The Role of Science,» Science (5 January 1973) 179:19 - 23.

According to this prefab Apocalyptoid adventure saga, a shipwrecked kid, left for dead by his marauding Viking kin on a wild North American continent circa A.D. 1000, was raised by gentle natives, then grew up to protect his adopted people when more marauding Viking kin arrived to ply their marauding Viking ways.

But like too much apple pie, the newest entry in the American Pie «saga,» American Wedding, may leave even fans with a tummy ache.

While there are rewards to sticking with this tempest - in - teapot saga of sexual awakening across three family generations of Mexican - American women, its pacing is leisurely to the brink of stasis.

Moreover, in telling the story of a betrayed American spy come home for answers, this chapter in the Bourne saga was the political film of its year.

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So RSVP for the outrageously Unrated American Wedding experience in this hilariously hot, frantically funny final chapter of the unforgettable American Pie saga!

Still, this even - handed, mutually destructively, and inextricably Jewish - American family saga marks a major departure for Baumbach in one crucial respect: While all of his films have a cutting sense of humor, this is the first that would rather tend to its wounds than watch them bleed.

The Myth of the American Sleepover DVD Review by Kam Williams DVD Features Teens Acting Out in End of Summer Saga There's a thin line between making a Mumblecore and shooting a home movie, and in the case of The Myth of the American Sleepover it hard to discern exactly which you might be watching.

AMERICAN PASTORAL also stars Academy Award ® winner Jennifer Connelly (A Beautiful Mind) as Dawn, Dakota Fanning (The Runaways, The Twilight Saga) as Merry, Emmy ® winner Uzo Aduba (Orange Is the New Black), and Academy Award ® nominee David Strathairn (Lincoln, Good Night, and Good Luck).

In Search of the American Dream (PG - 13 for profanity, violence and mature themes) Survival saga about six sibling's attempt to elude the authorities in a race across Texas after their undocumented parents are arrested on the spot and carted away.

«Episode IV: A New Hope» Lucas» original space - spanning saga has become such an iconic American movie that it's joined the ranks of «The Wizard of Oz» — nearly every moment, camera set - up or line of dialogue has been quoted, referenced or lampooned by another movie over the years.

Moreover, in telling the story of an amnesiac American killing machine (Matt Damon) come home for answers, this chapter in the Bourne saga was 2007's political film of the year.

Lee Daniels» The Butler (PG - 13 for violence, sexuality, smoking, profanity, ethnic slurs, mature themes and disturbing images) Forest Whitaker stars in the title role of this father - son saga, set against the backdrop of the African - American struggle for Civil Rights, recounting the real - life story of a butler who served in the White House under eight presidents.

Demon and dinosaur hunters prowl with Assassin's Creed DS, Twisted Metal: Head On PS2, Culdcept Saga X360, and multiplatformers Spiderwick Chronicles, American Idol Encore.

The strange saga between out American Olympic figure skater Adam Rippon and U.S. Vice President Mike Pence continues today, with an increasingly strange development.

DAMNATION Picked up to series STUDIO: Universal Cable Productions / Netflix TEAM: Tony Tost (w, ep), Guymon Casady (ep), James Mangold (ep), Daniel Rappaport (ep), Gillian Berrie (ep), David Mackenzie (d, ep) LOGLINE: An epic saga of the secret history of the 1930s American heartland, chronicling the mythic conflict and bloody struggle between big money and the downtrodden, God and greed, charlatans and prophets.

Film Review by Kam Williams Headline: Honest Cop Tested by Blue Wall of Silence in Gritty NYC Crime Saga The Tierneys are a tight - knit Irish - American clan with a long history of service in the NYPD.

Now, OK — did that line just come out that way, in Cronenberg's script, or is he winking at his dad's first hit, the 1975 sexual - parasite saga «Shivers» (known to American viewers as «They Came From Within»)?

«What August: Osage County gets right is the quintessentially American nature of the family saga,» finds Alex Doenau.

The reclusive American film - maker is expected in town to promote The Tree of Life, an intergenerational family saga that is only his fifth feature in 40 years.

DAVID EDELSTEIN, BYLINE: I assumed from its title that «I, Tonya» would be an American working - class twist on the Roman saga «I, Claudius,» here about greedy people scheming to maim one another.

Outside the competition, the Yank offerings are no less intriguing: Jodie Foster's «Money Monster,» Steven Spielberg's «The BFG» and Shane Black's «Nice Guys» will anchor the festival's Hollywood presence, while the American indie ranks will be represented in Un Certain Regard by Matt Ross» recent Sundance entry «Captain Fantastic,» and Michael O'Shea's world - premiering New York vampire saga, «The Transfiguration.»