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<text id=90TT3469>
<title>
Dec. 24, 1990: Worth The Wait?
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
Dec. 24, 1990 What Is Kuwait?
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<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
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GRAPEVINE, Page 15
Worth The Wait?
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<p>By DAVID ELLIS/Reported by Linda Williams
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<p> After more than a decade of anticipation, Francis Ford
Coppola's third installment of the Godfather film saga opens
on Christmas Day. The hiatus between episodes was longer than
the duration of both World Wars. But other megaprojects are
marinating out there at their own dilatory pace. Examples:
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<p> THE OLDEST DEAL For 35 years, a congressional committee has
dithered about the design and funding for a memorial to
Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Plans have now been set for a
nine-acre, $47 million garden plaza in downtown Washington.
Groundbreaking will occur next year for a scheduled 1995
dedication.
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<p> THE SEARCH FOR SCARLETT II Margaret Mitchell refused to
write a Gone With the Wind sequel, yet publishers were
undeterred. In 1988 romance novelist Alexandra Ripley was
selected to write the saga, but Warner Books, which paid $5
million for the rights, let the autumn 1990 publishing date
slip.
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<p> THE LORD'S WORK Construction began on upper Manhattan's
Cathedral of St. John the Divine in 1892, but the Gothic
structure's three elaborate stone towers remain unfinished. In
1980 master builders started to teach local youths the art of
stone carving and hope to finish the job--in about 60 years.
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<p> THE GREAT AMERICAN REVISION The literary world has been
waiting for New York writer Harold Brodkey's The Runaway Soul
since a 2,000-page manuscript was delivered in 1976. Brodkey,
who began writing the book nearly 30 years ago, has been
revising and arguing with publishers ever since. His
"exploration of American consciousness" is now due in late
1991.
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