Word: tales
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hard trade. You half expect him to pull a toad out of his holster, and you never quite believe that he can draw thrice in the time it takes ordinary men to draw once. And you shouldn't. For this is not the legendary West, but the tall-tale West, where realistic detail is introduced merely to lend credence to one of the year's most expert whoppers...
...California thwarting attempts by the local constabulary to bring them to justice. Over a dozen police vehicles are put out of commission during the rigors of the pursuit, but no cop ever gets hurt. This lends the movie a trace of the fabulous, like some sort of STP fairy tale. For the trio, however, the moral is finally brutal and predictable...
Assassination Plot. Thomas tells this startling tale with style through the journals of one Lovatt Frazier, a young Highlander who is wounded at Quebec, and then in Virginia joins Prince Charlie's court. Frazier has a gift for language ("Colonel Byrd, a man of vast parade") and a sharp eye for cracks in fine facades ("It seems that Mr. Randolph would declare for King James if only the King would then make nun comfortable in the office of attorney general"). The diarist, it develops, had the rare good luck to overhear a hitherto unrecorded conversation between Colonel George Washington...
...Ellery Queen, it is the very inimitability of the master-hardly a Holmesian exists who has not mentally attempted to compose a further adventure of the world's first consulting detective. To Critic Edmund Wilson, it is "the wit and fairy-tale poetry of hansom cabs, gloomy London lodgings and lonely country estates." Meyer views the basis of Holmes' immortality simply as the story of a friendship: the intellectual rationalist and his immortal physician-confidant, a man of infinite joust, the stolid, substantial, late great doctor... Sigmund Freud...
...home; in Manhattan. Daughter of Hollywood's much-storied Screenwriter Herman Mankiewicz (Citizen Kane), "Josie" Davis joined TIME in 1959 as a secretary and later wrote for its Show Business and Modern Living sections. She resigned from TIME in 1972 to work on Life Signs, a wry, witty tale of the psychic perils facing a young Manhattan mother...