Word: tales
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Master of Ballantrae. Errol Flynn as the "wicked, wicked lad" in a rousing movie version of Robert Louis Stevenson's tale of the Scottish wars (TIME...
Crossing Paris, the first and longest tale, is by Marcel Ayme, a deft ironist who likes to pare the French mind and character like an apple. This time, in a story which takes place during the German occupation, he cuts a little deeper. Two thugs, Martin and Grandgil, are hired by a black-marketeer to tote four valises filled with meat across the city. Grandgil, a newcomer to the racket, is supposed to take orders from Martin, but right from the start he shows a shocking lack of honor. By threatening to expose the black-marketeer, he gets...
...fondest of the one he saw in his own mirror. Experts have identified about 60 Rembrandt self-portraits, which have been cropping up in strange places ever since the master died in 1669. Last week another of Rembrandt's self-portraits was in the news, with a typical tale of mystery attached...
Almost as famous in Greek mythology as the Trojan War is the tale of the Seven against Thebes. It is all about the sons of King Oedipus. One, Prince Polyneices, got together with seven brave friends to wrest the throne of seven-gated Thebes from his brother. In this fratricidal war, Polyneices and five of his friends were killed in action.* After another war about the disposal of their bodies, they were supposedly buried at Eleusis, 14 miles northwest of Athens...
...seventh got away in a chariot but, according to legend, the earth opened up and swallowed him; the eighth lived to tell the tale...