Word: tales
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This is just one of the titillating tales in the most authoritative and complete history of the Mafia that has yet been published. Journalist Pantaleone, 54, Italy's leading expert on the Mafia, used to live in Villalba, in 1943 saw the U.S. plane and met the incoming U.S. tanks. He drew on personal experience as well as parliamentary and court records to write a flamboyant tale of terror, banditry and blood...
...BONHEUR. Writer-Director Agnès Varda translates the French word for happiness into an exquisite tale of infidelity...
...forest maiden of Indian legend had tiny faun feet that left footprints in the form of lotus blossoms. A 10th century emperor of China, delighted by the tale, commanded one of his concubines to bind her feet in a faunlike configuration and dance among the petals of a giant golden lotus. The emperor's concubine, if Chinese tradition is correct, was the Judas deer who led millions of Chinese women down a thousand-year trail of torture. The cruel custom of footbinding spread rapidly from court to commons, and continued unabated until Sun Yat-sen's revolution...
...BONHEUR. The Prince Charming of Director Agnès Varda's wry fairy tale about infidelity is a rather impulsive carpenter (Jean-Claude Drouot) who drives his wife to suicide and happily settles down with his mistress...
...only jarring note in Wacker's tragic tale of passion was the fact that his beloved is an automobile-a glossy black Mercedes 180. In car-crazy West Germany, justice takes such autoeroticism into sympathetic account. Last week Wacker was preparing to appeal a prison sentence of two years and seven months for "manslaughter with mitigating circumstances." Most Germans would applaud the lightness of the sentence. "My car is a very special friend of mine," explains one car owner. "It's like a human being. I talk to my car. I greet it in the morning...