Word: tales
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Winter's Tale. In Omaha, Dorothy Snow wisely chose Lawyer Frank Frost to plead her divorce case...
...period of the War Between the States, but readers will not have to leaf far to discover that it is about the same hair-raising war-between-the-sexes that chilled U.S. marrows in The Postman Always Rings Twice, Double Indemnity, Mildred Pierce. A well-told tale whose deadpan savagery suggests that it was written with the tip of an icicle, it features enough lust and mayhem per page to shame a pulp novel...
...Soler added that, according to his research, Goya probably had never been the Duchess' lover. Reason: her Grace was cold, narcissistic-not stormy Goya's type. The tale had just been dreamed up by writers, probably French...
Weird is the word. The Smoky Mountain legend of Barbara Allen and her witch-boy lover in itself is strange and eerie. Made into a "legend with music" by Howard Richardson and William Berney, strikingly performed, and skillfully produced, the tale becomes an unusually dramatic theatrical experience...
...meaning of my own young years." Fowler trained in the same up-from-cops school of journalism as Ben Hecht. Stanley Walker and the late Courtney Ryley Cooper, whose credo is that the old bars were the best, and that the only thing to do with a tall tale is to make it taller. Solo has many moments of awed moralizing, semi-penitential, Hollywood-haunted sentiment. But throughout runs a vein of the old, Rocky Mountain, free-&-easy Fowler yarning...