Word: legendes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hours and have plenty of time for reading and contemplation. Members of the Federal Reserve's superb staff, which produced the Government's first computerized model of the economy in 1968, can take a few months to study some obscure financial problem. According to persistent legend, Reserve employees also indulge in a good deal of partying and high living. Fed people say the stories are exaggerated, though the board long had its own tennis courts, and today its staffers almost monopolize some supposedly public courts near the building...
...lacks only one component-truth. As two newly reissued volumes show, Camus was not a mourner of the human condition but its celebrant. The two-volume Notebooks (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich; $3.95 each) follow the writer from 1935 to 1951 and neatly cleave the legend from the man. In the process they show why his formal works are as pertinent as the day they were written, a world...
There is a prince charming of sorts whose actions free the girl, but there is no conventional happy ending. Erendira and her supporting cast belong to the world of legend that Garcia Marquez Yoknapatawphaized out of the Colombian landscape in his lengthy masterpiece One Hundred Years of Solitude (1970). But the short story is not a form that can adequately contain his distinctive magic which requires proliferations of exotic plots, flowering images and familia' tangles...
...also star in it, there being no place in the movie for a sweet little tramp. Now A Woman of Paris can be seen for what it is: one of the loveliest expressions of Charles Chaplin's genius a sort of last gift from that troublesome man turned legend...
...Paul Theroux's latest novel, is a septuagenarian who has taken pictures ever since "a friend of Mama's bought me a camera because she thought I wasn't getting enough fresh air." Maude's picture taking became a career; she herself eventually became a legend to the millions who work and play in the form that is a billion-dollar synapse between technology...