Word: tales
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...NIGHT WATCH. This tough, perceptive French thriller follows five jailbirds along an underground escape route and unearths a bitter tale of honor among dishonest...
...couple of Republican Congressmen, Nebraska's David Martin and Kentucky's Gene Snyder, journeyed South and returned with a tale of dire poverty in Lyndon's own backyard-or, more precisely, Lady Bird's. In Alabama's Autauga County, Lady Bird owns about 3,000 acres of land that she inherited from her family. Much of the land, once cotton-producing, has been turned to timber, but four Negro tenant families still live on some of the property, occupying rundown houses that do more than Lyndon Johnson's words to dramatize poverty...
...places. It is possible to find only one scene over which there might be some controversy (unless the other was cut for the Boston showing), and that one is entirely necessary and not at all offensive. The woman is in state of sexual ectasy when she discovers the tell-tale scar on her lover's arm. There could not be a more dramatic, or terrible, moment for her to make this discovery. Moreover, the eroticism is tempered by the physical appearance of Actress Federspiel; she has appealing, lambent eyes, and she has a plain face and physical proportions that...
Lyndon Johnson is the hardest-working presidential tale spinner since Abraham Lincoln. Some of his yarns are long and tangled and full of Johnson's long-winded Texas syntax. Some are funny, some are pithy, and as often as not they are used to draw an Aesopian moral or to make a contemporary point. Some examples...
Actually, Candy is funny. It's wicked, of course, but then any book that is in part a parody of pornography would have to get a bit rough now and then. Pornography is only one of the authors' targets, however. Before the tale is told, psychology, academia, mysticism, television, Greenwich Village, and Ugly Americans all feel the hard bite of Candy's satire. Candy is only as dirty as the reader's mind...