Word: tales
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tale to startle the cynic, to make the disbeliever pause in his mockery, to brighten the faces of the faithful. The Red Sox, the lowly Boston Red Sox, are leading the American League going into tonight's game...
...Broadway She Loves Me is head over heels in love with love. The musical's sweethearts are Barbara Cook and Daniel Massey, son of Raymond. Carol Haney's dance spoofs and the Sheldon Harnick-Jerry Bock score keep this romantic fairy tale spinning. Rattle of a Simple Man, by Charles Dyer, locks a London floozy and a virginal Manchester clerk in a bedroom and then busily prevents them from going to bed. The play is stalemated between farce and pathos, but Tammy Grimes is a beguiling imp and Edward Woodward a touchingly vulnerable bumpkin. Mother Courage, by Bertolt...
...London, supposedly to set up an exchange with British scientists, Wynne went out to the airport to meet him and show him around town. Were you merely a chauffeur? asked the prosecutor. That's it, Wynne replied. Exploded Penkovsky to the court: "This is a child's tale. Believe me, citizen judges, I cannot understand why Wynne tries to minimize his role. I didn't need a chauffeur. I could have taken a taxi." Truth was, said Penkovsky, he was already relaying film to British intelligence, and now was in touch with the Americans as well...
...trouble seems to be that Kurosawa got fascinated with Dostoevsky's genius and forgot about his own. He follows with nearsighted assiduity every thread of the novelist's intricately woven tale. What's more, he too often tells the story in the author's words; he forgets to translate the words into correlatively compelling images. Nevertheless, the film skillfully counterfeits the look of Russia in the last century-it was shot in a small town in northern Japan in the dead of winter-and it brilliantly intuits the mystical spirit of Russian Christianity. The demonic nature...
...tale invites comparison with those classics of darkened childhood, Richard Hughes's High Wind in Jamaica and William Golding's Lord of the Flies. Novelist Gloag has named his adult villain Captain Hook, presumably after J. M. Barrie's piratical menace in Peter Pan. One does not have to believe in fairies, however, to give cold credence to the awful reality of Gloag's matriolatrous, patricidal tribe of tots...