Word: tales
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first place. But try to cajole a group of disillusioned children into believing in Santa Claus again; it won't work, and I suggest we search elsewhere to cure the mass hysteria already enveloping the world as man slowly awakens from a cherished fairy tale...
...unspecified crime against the state. Luca keeps this from the old lady, and instead constructs letters with elaborate lies about his success and about the richness of America. The old lady reads the letters with a large magnifying glass, thrilling to each detail like a child hearing a fairy tale, relishing the deception they represent even as, in some way, she seems to understand...
THEATRE OF BLOOD is the giddy tale of a sugar-cured Shakespearean actor named Edward Lionheart (Vincent Price) who sets out to eliminate the London critics who have mocked and vilified him during his career. He kills each of them in a quite elaborate and grisly fashion, every slaughter based on a scenario provided by the Bard: one hapless critic, for example, has his heart cut out (the pound of flesh in The Merchant of Venice), another is stabbed to death on the Ides of March. Worst torture of all, perhaps, is that the poor struggling wretches must listen...
...Knew Too Much. Because Hitchcock also directed a Technicolor remake of this classic (in Hollywood in 1955), the original is too seldom shown. This marvelous suspense tale, starring Peter Lorre, will be shown at the Welles, Sat. and Sun. at 2:00 only...
...second Sprint loss in a row for Harvard, the second in ten years for Harry Parker. Northeastern was everybody's favorite sports fairy tale; the crew that had not even qualified for the finals of the Sprints in the two previous years comes from behind to down top-ranked Harvard...