Scorsese was " captivated " by Kazan's films as a young man, and the documentary mirrors his own life story while he also credits Kazan as the inspiration for his becoming a filmmaker.

Oroonoko on the stage was regarded as a great tragedy and a highly romantic and moving story, and on the page as well the tragic love between Oroonoko and Imoinda, and the menace of Byam, captivated audiences.

Publishers Weekly called Confessions of a Teenage Body Snatcher, " A haunting tour of London's underclass during the 1830s ...( Sandom's ) visceral descriptions of industrial London are unflinching ... Teens will likely be both captivated by Victor's harrowing story as well as his ability to prevail in the face of harsh injustices.

These novels tell the story of a U. S. President who approves the assassination of the leader of an oil-rich Arab nation who has acquired nuclear arms and intends to pass them onto a terrorist organization.

An epic ( from the Ancient Greek adjective ( epikos ), from ( epos ) " word, story, poem ") is a lengthy narrative poem, ordinarily concerning a serious subject containing details of heroic deeds and events significant to a culture or nation.

On June 26, 2006, Roosevelt, again, made the cover of TIME magazine with the lead story, " The Making of America — Theodore Roosevelt — The 20th Century Express ": " At home and abroad, Theodore Roosevelt was the locomotive President, the man who drew his flourishing nation into the future.

As Marcel Carné put it, " in the unforgettable images of this spare and pure story we can discern the effort of an entire nation.

It might simply over-dramatize true incidents, omit important historical details, or add details for which there is no evidence ; or it might simply be a fictional story that no one takes to be true literally ( see Abizadeh 2004 ), but contains a symbolic meaning for the nation.

In the story that follows, the Bear Clan assumes the foundation role for the whole nation, and when they land they find the nation's friendship tribe, the Menominee.

* Queen Lucy, Super-Girl — In Superboy # 5 ( November – December 1949 ) in a story titled " Superboy Meets Supergirl ", Superboy meets Queen Lucy of the fictional Latin American nation of Borgonia.

In his afterword to the story, Farmer mentions the Triple Revolution memo, a document sent to United States President Lyndon Johnson in 1964, with policy suggestions for the future of the nation in the face of " three separate and mutually reinforcing revolutions.

" The story and its followup installments ran in newspapers all over the nation and detailed Hal's trip to Mars with an 8 foot tall green alien who is on a scavenger hunt to find Orson Welles.

He, along with his entire nation, is also the giant responsible for the building of the Tower of Babel-construction of which was supposedly started by him 201 years after the event of the Great Flood ( see biblical story of Noah's Ark & c .).

Though these operas used foreign styles, the " idyllic, lyric and heroic " parts of the story were always based on verbunkos, which was becoming a symbol of the Hungarian nation during this time.

In 1986 she co-led the opposition to the construction of the nation ’ s first high-level nuclear waste dump in her home state of New Hampshire, a campaign she described in a New York Times cover story in April 1986.

Although it has been reported that because of Immelmann's renown among his fellow pilots and the nation at large, the Pour le Mérite became known, due to its color and this early famous recipient, as the Blue Max, this story is probably an urban legend.

* The alternative-history short story " Assault on Fat Mountain " by R. A. Lafferty details the aftermath of a military victory in 1788 by the Free State of Franklin over North Carolina, resulting in the creation of a new world power, the Free Nation of Appalachia, and the shrinking of the United States Union into a poor backwater nation.

Drawing on his travels and such writers over a span of decades, Dusty chronicled the story of a rapidly changing postwar Australian nation.

The story goes on to say that the king sleeps in the mountain, awaiting a summons to arise with his knights and defend the nation in a time of deadly peril.

In early 2001, they came out to the nation on the CBS television program 48HRS in a piece about eating disorders, entitled “ Slim Chance .” They also shared their recovery story in a chapter in a celebrity addiction book called Feeding the Fame.

Ion Marandici, a Moldovan political scientist considers that the success story of the Moldovan Communists is mainly due to the Communists ' capacity to attract the votes of the ethnic minorities and the Romanian-speakers identifying as Moldovans, by proposing a Moldovenist nation and state-project.

A May 29, 1967 story in The Wall Street Journal made light of the deal, stating, " Two of the best-known railroads in the nation are merging and the Interstate Commerce Commission couldn't care less ".

In the mid-1950s, Newsweek published a story where then Harvard Law School dean and jurist Roscoe Pound declared, referring to UC Hastings: " Indeed, on the whole, I am inclined to think you have the strongest law faculty in the nation.

The chief of police listens to his story, but he is limited in what he can do since half the lake is in the jurisdiction of Borduria, a rival nation, and there are thus risks of a diplomatic incident.

The story of the Advance Wars begins in the " Field Training " tutorial mode, with the nation of Orange Star in a war against the neighbouring nation of Blue Moon, with Olaf as the Blue Moon Army commanding officer ( CO ).

Instead of being forgotten, because of their testimony, the Rosewood story is known across our state and across our nation.

Perhaps if they know the story there will be a massive cry of indignation ''.

Howard never gave a strict height or weight for Conan in a story, only describing him in loose terms like " giant " and " massive ".

Most of the story takes place on the continent Westeros, which consists of the Seven Kingdoms and an unmapped area to the north, separated by a massive wall of ice and old magic.

The gateway to the Mediterranean Sea from the Atlantic Ocean, where the southernmost tip of Spain and the northernmost of Morocco face each other, is, classically speaking, referred to as the Pillars of Hercules / Heracles, owing to the story that he set up two massive spires of stone to stabilise the area and ensure the safety of ships sailing between the two landmasses.

The inhabitants of Earth secretly build a massive spaceship inside the ruins of the Japanese battleship Yamato, the Space Battleship Yamato for which the story is titled.

The background to the story includes a massive earthquake laying waste to the San Francisco Bay area in California.

* Eleven-Soro had a high technology and then a massive crash, as is told in the short story " Solitude " in The Birthday of the World.

The story touched off a massive run, and Ponzi paid off in one day.

Michael Kaminski, in The Secret History of Star Wars, offers evidence that issues in Anakin's fall to the dark side prompted Lucas to make massive story changes, first revising the opening sequence of Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith to have Palpatine kidnapped and his apprentice, Count Dooku, murdered by Anakin as the first act in the latter's turn towards the dark side.

Emperor Gaozong of Song initiated a massive art project during his reign, known as the Eighteen Songs of a Nomad Flute from the life story of Cai Wenji ( b. 177 ).

A departure from his focus on musical games, Ninety-Nine Nights was Mizuguchi's attempt through an action game to tell the story of a massive, international conflict as viewed through the eyes of various factions.

The story also relates the breakup and reunion of a family ( the mother, the discoverer of Nemesis, and the daughter were separated from the Earthbound father when the colony departed ; the father becomes part of the hyperjump research project as a result ); the startling discovery that the bacterial inhabitants of Erythro, collectively, constitute a sentient and telepathic organism ; and the discovery and resolution of a massive crisis: Nemesis ' trajectory threatens to gravitationally destabilize the Solar System.

As the Festival's background story goes, the downtown waterfront of Bremerton where the festival takes place, was a massive overgrowth of wild blackberry bushes that were removed to build the waterfront Fountain Park, Boardwalk, Marina and Bus / Ferry Terminal.

In April 1994 Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain was found dead, a story which affected not only his fans and readers of the NME, but would see a massive change in British music.

In 1931, an attempt to force Stroud to discontinue his business and get rid of his birds failed after Stroud and one of his mail correspondents, a bird researcher from Indiana named Della Mae Jones, made his story known to newspapers and magazines and undertook a massive letter-and petition-writing campaign that climaxed in a 50, 000-signature petition being sent to the President.

In his ambitious S / Z ( 1970 ), Barthes applies this notion in a massive analysis of a short story by Balzac called Sarrasine.

His short story The Thames Valley Catastrophe ( published 1901 in The Strand Magazine ) describes the destruction of London by a sudden and massive volcanic eruption.

Wong continued shooting more and more of In the Mood for Love with the cast and crew as he worked furiously to edit the massive amounts of footage he had already shot over the past year, eventually removing large chunks of the story to strip it down to its most basic element, the relationship between these characters in the ' 60s, with brief allusions to earlier and later times.

A massive cast of returning heroes and villains were incorporated into the story and concluded with the apparent destruction of Mumm-Ra.

Amiga Format gave the game a score of 94 %, and praised its story, graphics, characters, puzzles and gameplay, saying: " Beneath A Steel Sky is a massive, intense and atmospheric adventure which will keep you on tenterhooks right until its final startling conclusion.

Wired included the game in its list of " The 15 Most Influential Games of the Decade " at # 10, for popularizing " exploration, puzzle-solving, platforming and story " among first-person shooters, concluding that " breaking the genre free from the clutches of Doom, this GameCube title took one massive stride forward for first-person games.

In Richard A. Lupoff's short story " The Discovery of the Ghooric Zone — March 15, 2337 ", Yuggoth is hinted to be the hypothetical Planet X. Lupoff's Yuggoth is a colossal, crimson planet, twice as massive as Jupiter.

Although the novel features many characters, it is Dirk Struan and Tyler Brock, former shipmates and the owners of two massive ( fictional ) trading companies who are the main focal points of the story.

The 2001 – 2008 Bionicle story arc was set in a world inhabited predominantly by part-organic, part-machine beings with souls ( most notably the Matoran ) in a subterranean world, which exists in massive domes underground, which was revealed in 2008 as existing in a massive robotic body.