Word: retold
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...regulation to compete, like any other company, in whatever businesses it chooses to enter. The consequences for consumers and businesses alike are certain to be historic. Says Ralph Acampora, an investment analyst for the New York City brokerage firm of Kidder Peabody & Co.: "It is Gulliver's Travels retold for the 1980s. The Lilliputians, like the Government, controlled a big giant. But one at a time, the strings began to fall away. Now we are confronted by this company with tremendous strength and resources that has been dormant for years and has at last broken free...
Brunvand has catalogued dozens of local happenings that somehow seemed to happen in different localities all over the country, yarns that are probably untrue but widely retold. There is, for instance, the story of the old woman who, whenever her dog or cat got wet, would dry it off in the oven. Then her children bought her a microwave, with gruesome consequences. Perhaps the most popular American folk yarn, the "vanishing hitchhiker," has been around for decades (centuries, if you count the version in Acts 8: 26-39). It has been updated for the automobile age. A driver picks...
FICTION: The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, Milan Kundera ∙ A Book of Women Poets from Antiquity to Now, edited by Aliki Barnstone and Willis Barnstone ∙ The Collected Stories of Elizabeth Bowen, Elizabeth Bowen ∙ The Company of Women, Mary Gordon Housekeeping, Marilynne Robinson Italian Folktales, selected and retold by Italo Calvino ∙ Other People's Worlds, William Trevor...
...Company of Women, Mary Gordon Housekeeping, Marilynne Robinson Italian Folktales, selected and retold by Italo Calvino...
FICTION: The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, Milan Kundera ∙A Book of Women Poets from Antiquity to Now, edited by Aliki Barnstone and Willis Barnstone ∙The Collected Stories of Elizabeth Bowen, Elizabeth Bowen ∙ Housekeeping, Marilynne Robinson ∙Italian Folktales, selected and retold by Italo Calvino ∙Other People's Worlds, William Trevor