Word: tales
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...undone book, badly done music, and smashingly done performances by two megatons of the U.S. musical stage, Mary Martin and Robert Preston. The Fourposter, on which this tale of a long-married, much-loving couple is based, is little more than a prop for their talents...
...undone book, badly done music, and smashingly done performances by two megatons of the U.S. musical stage, Mary Martin and Robert Preston. The Fourposter, on which thfs tale of a long-married, much-loving couple is based, is little more than a prop for their talents...
...trends in art, nonetheless won fame and financial success in the 1920s for his watercolors of grey and sordid industrial scenes, after which he changed his style completely, indulged his sense of fantasy by musing about heaven ("Like Corot, I hope there will be painting there") and doing fairy-tale landscapes haunted by macabre creatures; of heart disease; in Gardenville...
What really drives the stores to distraction is the customer who tries to return a gift bought from a competitor or at a reduced price in a discount house. Merchandisers tell the tale of one buyer whose pre-Christmas inventory totaled six toasters; the week after New Year's it had swelled to twelve. One New York City housewife has raised the technique to a high art. Each year her husband receives a gift box of Fabergé perfumes from the manufacturer. The lady returns it, bottle by bottle, to all the stores where she has charge accounts, thus...
...Game Is Over, which transposes a novel by Emile Zola (La Curée) into the present Paris scene, he gives them little else. Game tells the gamy tale of a hot young wife who commits incest with the hot young stepson (Peter McEnery) of her cold old husband (Michel Piccoli), and Vadim finds opportunities innumerable to show the world what a lucky man he is. Mrs. Vadim is exhibited stark naked in a bed of lust and rising from a garden pool like the White Rock girl. She also appears topless in a bathroom and bottomless under a hair...