Word: retold
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Reality is nasty stuff, tending as it does toward onrushing appointments for root-canal surgery and tuition bills. So it is extremely sad to report that one of the century's most dependable mechanisms for reality avoidance, the many-times-retold spy thriller whose gray secret is the mole in the British intelligence service, is in deep trouble. This is not really the fault of Frederick Forsyth, whose prose and plotting are no clunkier than those of other literary spy masters who borrowed the mole genre after John le Carré was through with...
...truly lost. In almost all of his 17 novels he exhibited a fatal temptation to play the philosopher, to make a large statement. He described his 1950 drama Burning Bright, which closed on Broadway after only 13 performances, as "a morality play, completely timeless and placeless." He translated and retold Arthurian legend and once proposed collaborating with Director Elia Kazan in staging modern versions of Greek tragedy...
Around these facts, director Robert M. Young '49 constructs a multifaceted tale of cultural conflict, in which the main events are retold from perspective after perspective. The film begins with a chilling scenario of the sheriff and Cortez' first meeting as recounted by posse leader Boone Choate, played by Tom Bower. A reporter from the San Antonio Express, who travels with the Rangers, strings together various accounts of the "Cortez gang," but it is not until the last third of the movie that we see the event from Cortez' point of view...
...history-was Senior Writer Otto Friedrich. The author of several historical books, the most recent of which was The End of the World, Friedrich was also responsible for the issue of TIME that celebrated America's 1976 Bicentennial. The issue featured Thomas Jefferson on the cover and retold the events of the fateful week of July...
Sometimes the moment of command is unforgettable, its recollection stirring. Lyndon Johnson told and retold the story of standing in the White House situation room and ordering Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara to send the Sixth Fleet toward the warring Middle East in 1967 to protect American interests. During such retellings, Johnson acted as if he could feel the great hulls shudder and begin to wheel around after he spoke a few quiet words. Oh what a lovely...