Word: tales
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...said with a sigh of relief, "There. That's done. Would you like to read it?" Highet said rather vaguely, "Yes, of course." He started to read the pages covered with his wife's precise handwriting, and discovered to his amazement that it was a suspense tale about a British couple who undertook a mission for the Foreign Office under the noses of the Nazis in Germany. He was unable to put the manuscript down until he had read the last page...
Then we return to the present (c. 1950) where Rita Tushingham has finished listening to the tale we've finished watching. Leaving Guiness, she walks across the top of a huge dam, accompanied by her balalaika and finance. Guiness cries out to the latter. "Can she play?" and the finance replies that Rita has been able to hold her own with a balalaika since birth...
...last time they went to the Eternal City, he was Antony and she was Cleopatra and the shocks from that courtship broke every seismograph in the empire. Now Elizabeth Taylor, 34, and Richard Burton, 40, are about to relive the tale in Elizabethan style. In Rome they will begin shooting The Taming of the Shrew, which will give Richard an opportunity to utter Petruchio's immortal line: "Why, there's a wench...
...sound track of the film, consisting mainly of candid tape-recordings and snippets from interviews, reflects the same kind of directness. Some volunteers speak of their failures and frustrations, of their frequent inability to produce the slightest dent on traditional village life. Others have a more optimistic tale. Above all, one receives a sense of complete candor, of an attempt portray the actuality of Peace Corps life in India...
...trial only last week. Their writings, published outside Russia under the psuedonyms Tertz and Arzhak, were fantastic portrayals of Soviet society. Sinyavsky depicted the horrors of the Stalinist trials and the inner workings of Stalin's regime in one of his short stories, "The Trial Begins." Daniel's tale "Moscow Speaks" envisioned a day of legalized crime and violence throughout the country. Writing in a grotesquely symbolic style reminiscent of Kafka and Dostoyevsky, the two authors explored the psychological realities of their lives...