Word: tales
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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WOODSTOCK, VT., Little Theater. Neil Simon's Come Blow Your Horn, a tale of two brothers, reaps a harvest of hilarity...
Dahlstrom, who admitted that he used marijuana, LSD and amphetamines, was not shy about discussing the crime-though his tale was scarcely coherent. Even before talking to his lawyer, he spilled out his story in prison to the San Francisco Examiner's Mary Crawford. He spoke of a bad LSD trip brought on by a dose that Carter had sold him. Later Dahlstrom told a reporter about what he called "the struggle": "He was convulsing as he went down. That's why I stabbed him some more -maybe a little too much. I hadn't had life...
...Dear Alf." The controversy erupted when a government tribunal issued a long-awaited report on the catastrophe, in which 144 died when a water-weakened tip suddenly slid down its precarious mountainside site. In 151 emotion-charged pages, the report told a "terrifying tale of bungling ineptitude," scourged the National Coal Board for neglecting "the stability of tips," cited seven N.C.B. staffers (all of whom have been shifted to new jobs) as "blameworthy." Lord Robens himself got off with only a sharp rebuke for having insisted that the company "could not have known" of trouble...
...spotting new trends. Her 1964 essay, "Notes on 'Camp,' " is a minor classic, a sharp, entertaining catalogue that did much to popularize-and overpopularize-the Ins and Outs of the camp phenomenon. Her one novel in those days was The Benefactor (TIME, Sept. 13, 1963), an opaque tale about a dandified dreamer who cannot figure out whether he killed his wife in a nightmare or in cold blood. Death Kit is much the same. The hero is a junior executive named Diddy, and the question is, Did he, while traveling on a train, butcher an innocent railroad workman...
...mere stage work could be expected to evoke the tale of horror that issued from the trial of Adolph Eichmann. But in London last week, audiences reeling out of the St. Martin's Theater were convinced that they had experienced something like a surrealistically twisted version of the Eichmann affair. The play is The Man in the Glass Booth. The booth is a criminal's bulletproof dock, but the drama is anything but shatterproof...