Word: tales
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bizarre-but basically true -tale raised a host of disturbing questions. Why did the military have to resort to spying to get information that it claimed was essential to maintain the nation's defenses? Was the Pentagon prying into matters that were none of its business? Were some leaders of the armed forces contemplating a coup? As it turned out, the story of the Pentagon v. the White House was not quite Seven Days in May but several deeply disquieting days in January (when the story first surfaced). It was something less than apocalyptic, but troubling nonetheless...
...cooks beating out colleagues for petty cash, of 'friends' betraying 'friends' for survival in this dog-eat-dog gangster's game--and of the dreams that keep them going, the Florida vacation or the hot piece of ass. It's an honest movie, true clean through to the crooked tale it tells...
Lelouch takes care to place his tale in the late sixties, though there is nothing insistently late sixties in the movie. It's more one of those timeless love stories than anything else: a middle aged professional crook holing up in Cannes to rob a fancy (Van Cleef's) jewelry store, is smitten by the antique dealer who runs the shop adjacent. He pursues her by as labyrinthine a design as the one he lays for the robbery. He's no wizard at mind-reading, however, and both plans backfire. The police nab him (for some mysterious reason he dawdles...
...their cities. Both take office with solid assurances of aid and support from not only the black but the white leadership of their communities. And both confront first and foremost the problem of street crime: their cities rank among the highest in the U.S. in homicide rates. A tale of two cities and their new mayors, Coleman Young of Detroit and Maynard Jackson of Atlanta...
While focusing down on individual cells in the course of their investigations into the grand scheme of the brain, neuroscientists-like the Persian fairy tale's three princes of Serendip-have been making fortuitous discoveries that have already resulted in improved clinical treatment of several serious illnesses...