Word: tales
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Henley told police that Corll had turned on him and two other youths, threatening to sexually molest and kill them. Instead, Henley said, he had managed to kill Corll in self-defense. He then recounted to Houston police an incredible tale of horror, homosexual sadism and mass murder in which he, Corll and a third accomplice, David Owen Brooks, 18, had taken part during the past three years...
...write The Rise and Fall of T.D. Lysenko, a chronicle of Stalin's favorite scientist, a crackpot biologist who was the final, arbitrary word in Russian genetics for more than two decades. His second sin, in 1971, was to write The Medvedev Papers, a tale of Soviet censorship and suppression of intellectuals. Neither book was published in the U.S.S.R., but Soviet officials were so angered by their publication in the West that they finally confined Medvedev to a madhouse for what they termed a "split personality, expressed in the need to combine scientific work . . . with publicist activities...
Lucas is a young film maker whose only other feature was THX-1138, a cool, cautionary science-fiction tale released in 1970. It established him as a director of great technical range and resource. Graffiti reveals a new and welcome depth of feeling. Few films have shown quite so well the eagerness, the sadness, the ambitions and small defeats of a generation of young Americans. Bitchin', as they said back then. Superfine. ∎Jay Cocks
...with Astaire as a private eye and Charisse as the sleazy streetwalker in distress. Lots of good songs, and a plot so old that you just have to love it. Channel 3. 9:00 p.m.--The Battling Bellhop. The two premiere tough-asses of all time meet in a tale of fighters, dames, and lots of money. Edward G. Robinson discovers Wayne Morris in a hotel lobby and makes him into a contender, while trying to keep Bette Davis' hands off him. Humphrey Bogart is the evil opponent outside the ring who wants the bellhop to take a dive...
Blume in Love. By Paul Mazursky, who did Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice, which was a better movie. This sometimes incisive work is a tale of undying love that sends George Segal from Los Angeles to Venice in search of his divorced wife, beautiful Susan Anspach. It won't take you quite as far. Cheri...