Word: tales
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...River (20th Century-Fox). The story of the Tennessee Valley Authority is an epic in search of a poet. It has not found him in Elia Kazan, who produced and directed this picture, but it has found at least a man who can experience the elemental tensions of the tale-public against private interest, mule-team against machine society-and can extricate them from a script that smells less of the river than it does of the paste...
...Henderson, who still thinks that he is her husband but insane. As Roger's end shows. Author Glaskin's powers of invention are unfortunately limited and his writing is graceless. What recommends the book is chiefly its intriguing central idea, which suggests a hitherto untold Tale of Hoffmann as it might have been rendered by Thorne Smith...
Brown shoulders swayed and laughter filled the night as this simple tale in pidgin English wafted last week from the screen of one of Nigeria's 45 open-air cinemas. A commercial for Barclays Bank of England, written in the local "High Life" beat, the short cartoon has become so popular among West Africans that it vies for equal billing with ancient Tom Mix westerns and Charlie Chaplin slapsticks. It also pleases Barclays: savings accounts have almost quadrupled since it started showing the film. Says Barclays' Advertising Manager Kenneth J. Lashmar...
Although the 20th century has perfected abundant death to match its abundant life, it is deficient in literary spooks-apart from Thome Smith's thanatipsy Topper. In a first novel that is both sepulchral and oddly appealing. Author Beagle sets out to make good the omission. His tale is a muted, wistful love story that takes tone and title from Andrew Mar-veil's wry lines To His Coy Mistress: The grave's a fine and private place, But none, I think, do there embrace...
Venetian Red, by P. M. Pasinetti. The canals of Venice are mocking mirrors of human folly in this wry first novel, whose author weaves his comments on Italy into a tale of two fascinating families...