Word: tales
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...meringue (pronounced like the topping on a lemon pie). In Dominican eyes, the livelier Haitian meringue seems oversexed, while to Haitian ears the Dominicans' merengue seems oversaxed. Both nations claim to have invented the ancestral meringue-merengue, but the true origins are obscure. One oft-told Dominican tale is that the merengue got started when a party of Dominican villagers welcoming home a war hero with a maimed leg sympathetically copied his gimpy style of dancing. The story is supposed to account for the merengue's hip-swinging, bent-knee style...
...little word dominated the news last week. It was YALTA, a name that evoked many memories, reposed many questions. One of the early questioners quoted by TIME (March 5, 1945) was George Bernard Shaw. The Yalta Conference, snorted Shaw, was "an impudently incredible fairy tale ... I for one should like to know what really passed . . . This will come out 20 years hence ... But I shall not then be alive -I shall never know...
...lost before the war was won. It relates in detail how three men at the summit of authority sought to reshape the world in a week. What emerges is the real "spirit" of Yalta, a story more tragic than sensational. It is, as Shaw remarked, an "incredible fairy tale," but one without a happy ending, as you will see upon reading The Yalta Story...
...Glass Slipper breathes, as Lili did, the atmosphere of a latter-day fairy tale. It is, in fact, the Cinderella story rewritten with the sort of sophistication best confined to the perfume ads. The prince (Michael Wilding) no longer loves his lass just because she is beautiful. He admires her "great agonized . . . rebellious eyes." The glass slipper is now made of "the finest Venetian glass." And the fairy godmother (Estelle Winwood) is a queer old dear who wanders around saying "window sill" because it sounds so nice...
...experience as complex and fascinating as that of playing three-dimensional chess with three different opponents. The three levels in this film are occupied by the Bible story of Cain and Abel, by John Steinbeck's recent novel (TIME, Sept. 22, 1952), which attempts to retell the eternal tale as a modern instance, and by Director Elia Kazan's effort to reconcile the spirit of both with his own sharp sense of the story's meaning and with the claims of commerce...