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- GRAPEVINE, Page 15Worth The Wait?
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- By DAVID ELLIS/Reported by Linda Williams
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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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