Word: tales
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...artistic force and integrity" of his four-part classic The Quiet Don. This week his fellow Nobel prizewinner, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, accused Sholokhov of plagiarism in a preface to a critical study of The Quiet Don* published in Paris. Solzhenitsyn declared that the real author of the epic tale of Don Cossacks in World War I and the Russian civil war was Fyodor Kryukov, a Cossack writer...
...kindly, Bennett is not fashionable any more. The Old Wives' Tale, perhaps his best novel, is one of the few that are read at all. It is possible that he would accept this near obliteration. He was always insistent that he wrote for the day and did not understand colleagues who were employed by "posterity." Although he knew his full worth in terms of a publisher's contract, he was a modest, self-effacing man who never forgot his roots or upgraded his accent. He was born in 1867 in Burslem, one of the "Five Towns...
Prime Bennett titles-The Old Wives' Tale, Clayhanger, These Twain-are among the best realistic English novels. Bennett's angle of view into working people's lives never needed correction. His characters are so authentic that they withstand criticism...
...recently. On the set of his current film, Breakout, Bronson and Co-Star Robert Duvall were toying with the controls of a $250,000 helicopter when its engine suddenly overheated and caught fire. That unscripted event, of course, had nothing to do with Breakout's true-life tale of Adventurer Victor Stadter's copter flight into a Mexican prison to spring wealthy American Joel Kaplan. Nor, for that matter, did some of the scripted scenes; though the actual 1971 jailbreak went uneventfully, not so the movie version. Appearing unexpectedly on the set, Kaplan and Stadter watched in amazement...
...tale illustrates the astonishing behind-the-scenes influence wielded by Ryoichi Sasakawa, 75, the most powerful remaining member of a vanishing breed of Japanese kingmakers known as kuromaku. The word translates literally as black curtain,* but the closest equivalent in American slang of the power it connotes is godfather. Through his enormous fortune (his real estate holdings alone are estimated at $71.4 million) and the huge store of giri (moral obligations) he has accumulated over the years by dispensing favors and finances, Sasakawa has a puissance that any American influence peddler would envy...