Word: tales
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...James's who has been lobbying privately for his release for over a year. Too weak to offer more than cursory details of his imprisonment, James did tell a journalist friend that the Chinese had accused him of spying for Russia. "James signed five or six absurd, fairy-tale confessions," reported the Australian's Gregory Clark, who also characterized James's stay in China as "three years of constant interrogation and solitary confinement...
Beauty and the Beast. A remarkable and poetic fantasy created in 1946 by the versatile French writer, Jean Cocteau, an occasional, but master, film-maker. This luxurious fairy tale dream dances and mimes to George Auric's score and has sets and make-up by the finest artists of French theater. A great film of striking beauty...
Maltese Falcon. Established John Huston as a director and Humphrey Bogart in the kind of double-edged role that became "Bogey." The third and most faithful adaptation of Dushiell Hammett's novel dwarfed its predecessors and became the screen's classic American crime tale. Mary Astor, Peter Lerre, and Sidney Greenstreet lead a cast that's perfect right down in Captain Jacobi, modling exciting mystery around the deceptive personality of detective Sam Spade...
...OPTIMIST'S DAUGHTER by Eudora Welty. A muted Southern tale about dying and surviving and what can be salvaged through genteel memory and raw feeling...
...Tale of Peter Rabbit and Squirrel Nutkin, by Beatrix Potter, Dover; $1 each...