Word: tales
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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WINNING. Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward give unduly serious attention to this somewhat bathetic tale of marital infidelity, set against the noisy background of auto racing. The Newmans are good to watch in just about anything, but this particular vehicle is badly in need of a dramatic tune...
...SIDE OF THE MOUNTAIN and RING OF BRIGHT WATER. These two children's films are distinguished by their lack of coyness and a singleminded refusal to condescend to their audience. Mountain concerns a Canadian lad who runs off to the woods, and Ring tells the sprightly tale of a London accountant and his pet otter...
...Vladimir Nabokov. A long, lyric fairy tale about time, memory and the 83-year-long love affair of a half-sister and a halfbrother, by the finest living writer of English fiction...
...like Eire, hate poems couched as hymns and generally got things so snarled up that they even have to watch each other. (The best Irish talkers have eyes like terriers'.) Gulliver's Travels, the Anglo-Irish classic, is the high point of the two traditions: a folk tale of giants and dwarfs and transformations, and a good ironic belt at English politics. The stage Irishman, or rollicking boyo, which developed later, is really a put-on that lost...
...even more stunning tour deforce, a balletic version of Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew. Both were lavishly mounted, eye-filling pieces. Onegin uses a score by Music Director Kurt-Heinz Stolze based on short pieces by Tchaikovsky. The work moves quickly and assuredly through Pushkin's tale of romance and betrayal, never assuming the luxury of a dance-for-dance's-sake diversion, bending every movement toward dramatic ends. Shrew, with music by Domenico Scarlatti arranged by Stolze and liberally peppered by his modern harmonies, adds a welcome touch of wit and tenderness to Shakespeare...