Word: tales
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Africa. In 1891, grievously ill, he returned to France to die. Enid Starkie, a lecturer at Oxford, has devoted most of her energy to Rimbaud, and this book is a revised and expanded version of her magnum opus. As a biography, it is the ablest assemblage of a tale many of whose pieces will never be found; as writing, it is often awkward and repetitious. But the story alone carries the book. Rimbaud embodied in his short life some of the great prototypes: the fallen angel, the artist-outlaw, the prodigal son. He continues to be worshiped by religious writers...
...tale is trite, the script clumsy, and the camera work grossly faked. Though the lovers wander all over Paris, the Cathedral of Notre Dame turns up in the background practically everywhere they go, almost as if it were following them around like a little dog. To conceal such defects, Director Minnelli pours on the martial music and the Metrocolor. When war is declared, the screen turns such a bright blood red that for about half an hour afterward everything looks green. And the Four Horsemen-the Biblical war, pestilence, death and conquest-gallop across the sky at intervals like...
Federico Fellini (La Dolce Vita) directed the billboard fantasy, making three-fourths of the Ekberg visible beneath the surface. Vittorio De Sica (Two Women) directed Sophia Loren in a tale about a girl who works in a traveling circus. At each town, a raffle is held and the winner gets Sophia. In one village, Sophia meets and falls in love with a local lad. To cleanse her name and clear her future, she gives the winner of that day's raffle all the money but no honey...
Launched in a flurry of prepublication testimonials and press attention (Harper's magazine will devote most of its April issue to printing the entire novel), Author Price's book is a brief, appealing, generally unpretentious tale of a young girl who does not quite know how to land her laggard suitor, and who, as she learns, finds error a trial. It is a good first novel, masterfully put together, and it deserves its jackpot luck, wrong reasons notwithstanding...
...Assembly, O'Hara is at his best in "The Cellar Domain," a portrait of the tight, status-conscious little world of Peter Durant's barber shop, and the tale of its destruction. Durant, the head barber, runs his miniature community with a social-register sense of propriety. Certain customers get preference over others, and some are told, when they begin to realize they are being ignored, "Better go down the street. You got a good barber down towards the rail-road station." Those who finally make the inner circle are fitted for the symbol of acceptance--a $2 beer...