Word: tales
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...daughter, won rave reviews in the London production of The Miracle Worker, added to her reputation in the Gielgud-Richardson School for Scandal, is now starred in a revival of The Doctor's Dilemma. Equally talented is her brother Daniel, 29, whose wit and whimsy set the fairy-tale mood of Broadway's airy musical She Loves...
Francois Truffaut's French segment is the one almost common tale of the five, and it is told with delicacy if not warmth. A young factory worker falls in love with a girl he meets at concerts, but he never succeeds in transforming their relationship from one of copains to amants...
...story of Francesca and Paolo, from Dante's Inferno. Francesca, the beautiful wife of Giovanni Malatesta, a hunchbacked nobleman, is in love with her husband's brother, Paolo. Paolo has visited Francesca every day for a year to read her romantic poetry. One day he reads her the tale of how Launcelot first kissed Queen Guenivere, and that day is "the day they read of it no more." When Giovanni sees them Jeave arm in arm, he decides to murder them...
...LIFE AND IDEAS OF THE MARQUIS DE SADE by Geoffrey Gorer. 250 pages. Norton. $5. "This is the most impure tale that has been written since the world began," the Marquis de Sade said of his novel Les 120 Journees de Sodome; and the world has tended to agree. Les 120 Journees has been banned almost everywhere-even in France, and so have most of the rest of De Sade's works, which describe in relentless detail murder, torture, coprophagy, and sex orgies that are a triumph of human engineering. "Here I am," boasts a De Sade heroine during...
Golden winds up with the tale of a peddler whose first name is still a household word. He was a Bavarian immigrant named Levi Strauss. He sailed to San Francisco in 1852 with a batch of denim canvas. Strauss hoped to sell the fabric for tenting, but noticed that the men needed pants that would hold up in the rugged gold-mining hills of California. The canvas started his inimitable blue jeans, called Levi's, walking all over the world...