Word: tales
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Against the surreal landscapes of Mozambique, Bechuanaland and Transvaal, Director Wilde unfolds this simple tale with elemental force, and acts it accordingly. His natives are not the usual faceless blacks but human beings whose capacity for violence the hero quickly matches. In the script, sparely written by Clint Johnston and Don Peters, a few scraps of English dialogue and African dialect count for less than the surprise of a snapping twig or the insistent throb of drums, injected into the bloodstream of the film like so many shots of adrenaline. Without insulting modern Africa, Naked Prey writes the wild poetry...
...face is familiar, but . . . Italian Painter Pietro Annigoni, 56, wouldn't say who she was, though he did tell a wry tale about his portrait of the lady in London's Upper Grosvenor Gallery. "This woman came all the way from California to my studio in Florence," he chuckled. "She said: 'I have the most beautiful body in the world, and I wish you to paint me in the nude.' I had never had a proposition like that before. I thought it was a commission. As it turned out, it wasn't. All she wanted...
...rape her one summer evening. The attackers escape, the Indian boy is vindictively jailed on a trumped-up political charge, and peaceful at last, the English girl dies in giving birth to her uncertainly sired child. Author Scott writes with gravity and grace. He has set his scarifying tale within a bloody jungle of Congress Party politicking and imperial British bungling, which he examines informatively and with compassion. He also examines events from every possible viewpoint, successively recounting his story through the eyes of eight widely disparate observers. Even for elusive India, it proves to be about four observers...
...virtuous Renaissance lady enduring a crash course in fertility, Rosanna Schiaffino is stretched out in bed with large, warm rocks on her stomach, then is marinated in giant tubfuls of broth, and finally is sealed, screeching, into a body-length hot-water bag to test another old wives' tale. More than 400 years after it was penned by the cynical Renaissance moralist, Niccolo Machiavelli, this ribald comedy classic still looks exuberantly out of bounds...
These hothouse procedures produced prodigious fruits. At four, the child was writing poetry. At five, she turned out an impressive 25-page nursery tale. And at 13 she published a novel (The House Without Windows) written with a lyric ecstasy that ravished the critics and made her one of the better-known moppets of the '20s. And then...