Word: tales
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With whimsical bitterness, European computer makers sometimes call themselves "the Seven Dwarfs." In their real-life grim fairy tale, Snow White is played by IBM, and the handsome prince she runs off with is some 60% of the multibillion-dollar European computer market. Hoping to break up the romance, the European Common Market Commission is readying a major proposal for the so-called dwarfs* to gang up on Snow White...
...Repulsion, the finest horror-thriller ever made. Roman Polanski directed the lovely and crazed Catherine Deneuve in this gruesome tale of obsession, insanity, and brutality. Although the action will probably be cut badly for television, watch it in a dark room by yourself, and maybe you can get some of the spine chills. A brilliant film visually and dramatically, a must. Channel...
...carefully planned Watergate cover-up that was coming apart. Even worse, he suspected that he was marked out as the "fall guy." Finally, he sat down in the rustic cottage and began to write. As he later told a friend: "The pen wouldn't write the 'fairy tale' they wanted. It kept spelling out the truth." In despair, he threw down his pen and declared...
Coolly composed, the former Government agent spun out a tale of Washington intrigue sprinkled with specific details of secret meetings on a scenic outlook over the Potomac, pay-booth telephone calls from a stranger, an implied threat against his life...
...Glazunov's melodious score for Raymonda, Cortège is an elegant, plotless exercise in classic Marinsky style that would have delighted an audience of imperial grand dukes. One corps was dressed in shimmering white tights, tunics and tutus; another corps was costumed and booted in a fairy-tale fantasy of Hungarian peasant dress...