Word: tales
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...complex tale. Born a slave in Louisiana, she sets forth with a group of freedmen and -women for Ohio after Emancipation. Only she and a boy named Ned (whom she raises as her son) escape massacre by vigilantes determined to keep her people in their place -that is, in the old slave quarters of the plantations. Indeed, it is to this world that she retreats to work as a field hand in order to support the child. She escapes briefly when she marries a dashing black cowboy and goes to Texas, where he has a good life as a broncobuster...
MARTIN WELLING, URBAN, DONTAS--Sun. Feb. 3 at Cambridge Folk & Tale House...
...Spade (Humphrey Bogart), gasps "Falcon!" and dies. But the film offers still more: Sidney Greenstreet at his most rotund, Elisha Cook in an oversized overcoat. This third and most faithful adaptation of Dashiell Hammett's novel dwarfed its predecessors and became the screen's classic American crime tale. This was the film that established John Huston as a director...
...there is a fairy tale to keep every frustrated diva or divo going strong, that, more or less, is it. Last week the dream came true for Brooklyn-born Soprano Klara Barlow, 45. In a dozen years of big parts with minor companies and substitute assignments in major houses, Klara never stopped believing. Now she was on the great stage of the Met, making rapturous musical love to handsome Jess Thomas, the reliable Wagnerian tenor. When at last she died by Thomas' side at the end of the Liebestod, the crowd went wild...
...anarchy they see around them. For these men literary conventions only pose limitations and rules to be broken, and narrative becomes hopelessly narcissistic. In John Barth's story, Lost in the Funhouse, for example, the author interrupts to explain the narrative techniques of the short story while the tale is in progress. Barth then shows contempt for these forms and simultaneously complains that his story is getting nowhere. Like his protagonist and the other anti-novelists, he is lost in the funhouse...