Word: tales
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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MERIWETHER LEWIS, by Richard Dillon. The lively tale of the explorer who charted the American frontier but died in alcoholic ruin a few years after his triumph...
...Lovers' scenario might have been the banal tale of any tryst set to a Brahms sextet. A provincial housewife grows bored with her lot, takes a pointless, guarded fling at the pleasures of Paris, meets an appealing man and abandons herself to him. Malle decided to be both mystic and realistic, to try to film both the passion and the poetry of love. The resulting sequence is by now duly celebrated in the annals of film. It follows the lovers from bedroom to bath tub and back to bed again, missing very little, zeroing in on Moreau...
Thus with Viva Maria!, which aims at being little more than a fancifully photographed tale of two turn-of-the-century dance-hall girls who cheer up a Latin American revolution, Moreau saw a chance of expressing one of her firmest beliefs. "Films have never shown the kind of relationship that can exist between two women," she says. "Men like to think that women must be constantly jealous of each other, never trusting, never in rapport. That is not true, of course, certainly not today. This film could show that...
...more than a year, Chicago's Pure Oil Co. has been much like the princess of a Norwegian fairy tale: sitting on top of a hill of glass, she watched as a host of suitors tried to negotiate the slippery slope to win her hand. Pure would welcome a corporate marriage, all right: although its sales in the past ten years have risen 64% , to $630 million, gas wars and short supplies of Pure-produced crude have cut earnings to a disappointingly steady $30 million. Plenty of wooers have tried the hill but slipped on Pure's fussy...
...view of the long-overdue protests which have arisen concerning the propriety of the charter-flight operations of the HSA. I wish to add my tale of woe to the collection. Early in the spring of last year, I obtained a reservation for a trip to Europe, and pre-paid the entire amount, as required by the HSA. Late in April or early May, concluding that my financial condition required me to take a summer job in the U.S. rather than touring Europe, I attempted to cancel my reservation and obtain a refund...