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Three Fables of Love differs from Bocaccio 70 in about the same way that Leslie Caron differs from Sophia Loren. This new string of romantic vignettes is less gaudy than its ancestor, but the quality and themes are nearly identical. If you have good eyesight and don't search for symbolism, Three Fables will give you an Eisenhower dollar's worth of entertainment...
Confucius emphasized family obligations, evident still in Viet Nam's ancestor worship and cult of the dead. The 15th day of the seventh month is set aside annually for the departed; the shades swoop down upon the living, who do their best to placate them with a sumptuous feast. Dressed in their best black silk and carrying burning joss sticks, the women recite invitations to their dead ancestors to partake of roast pig's head and sticks of sugar cane, peanuts and white rice. As offerings to less trencher-minded spirits, they burn paper imitations of currency...
...design is the basis of one of the oldest games in the world, ancestor of the abacus and of backgammon, dominoes and mah-jongg. Its most popular U.S. incarnation-called Kalah-is the life work of a spry 82-year-old retired financial counselor, who is suddenly hard put to keep up with the demand...
...been suggested that Harvard's Commencement, the ancestor of all American academic ceremonies and quite distinct from those of Europe, is the United States' chief contribution to higher education. If an undergraduate cannot find distinction in the Harvard curriculum, he can be sure it will appear in the ceremony of the parting...
Lazarillo moves on to other masters, among them one of the most appealing creatures of the Spanish imagination, a knight-aberrant who is obviously a direct literary ancestor of Don Quixote. The dear fellow is a physical coward who runs at the first hint of a fight, but later, safe in his bedroom, rips out his rapier and slaughters imaginary myriads. He is so poor he seldom eats more than twice a week-in one hilarious frame the camera wistfully observes that his chamber pot is filled with cobwebs. But he is proud. Whenever he leaves the house, he picks...