Word: tales
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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LYSISTRATA (Caedmon). Disgusted with the 20-year-old Peloponnesian War, Aristophanes attacked the Greek "hawks" with volleys of ribaldry. In the celebrated tale of how women ended the war with a sex strike, Hermione Gingold slyly makes double entendres sound quadruple as the Athenian matron who urges the ladies to stay out of the bedrooms until their men get off the battlefields...
...Will Understand." After the first few hours of private grief, boyish-looking Chuck Percy, 47, a devout Christian Scientist, weathered the ordeal with spartan composure. His life had been a classic tale of success-a rise from $12-a-week clerk to president of Bell & Howell Co. at 29, a millionaire at 40. But this was the second untimely death that had stricken his family. In 1947 his first wife, Jeanne (who was not a Christian Scientist), died of a violent reaction to drugs after a seemingly simple and successful operation. Percy married the former Loraine Guyer...
...burrow through rotting rain forests, fight off swarms of bugs, swim mighty, mud-thick rivers that cut between the region's steep mountains, and find a way to signal the U.S. rescue planes that orbit high over the jungle. Last week the most recent escapee told a harrowing tale of his trudge back to freedom...
Forman strews this commonplace tale with insights that are compassionate, painfully true, and almost continually beguiling. Instead of jokes, there is abundant, honest humor, erupting spontaneously in a dance-hall sequence that pits the man-hungry girls against a trio of loutish army Lotharios. One furtively removes his wedding ring, only to see it go spinning crazily off among the dancing feet. In an endearing seduction scene that avoids nearly every nudenik movie cliché, the shy blonde hasn't a stitch on by the time she reproachfully tells her playboy-pianist: "I don't trust...
T.H.E. CAT (NBC, 9:30-10 p.m.). Robert Loggia plays a character named Thomas Hewitt Edward Cat in the tale of a cat burglar turned crime fighter. In the premiere, he acts as a bodyguard for a fearless priest threatened by the underworld...