Word: tales
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...banal tongue and his repetitive nightmare about the cursed albatross that haunts his fevered imagination: his family, the restive dead. His soap-opera prose alone ought to chloroform any ghost. But somehow O'Neill slings the albatross round our necks and makes us grieve and attend to his tale of fearful...
...intent was to satirize, and the target was anything that had become overgrown with acceptance or nostalgia. In 1967, he freshened his slant with Snow White, a novel whose transformed fairy-tale heroine swept away the Disney dust by writing dirty poems and commingling in the shower with the Seven Dwarfs, who otherwise labored over large vats, manufacturing Chinese baby food...
...little insight into just how menial the task St. Marian had in staying the not-so-mighty Tiger that night of March 1. I had visions of State Basketball Title, front page picture in the South Bend Tribune, a fire engine ride through the streets of South Bend, a tale for future kids and grand kids, and a victory banquet...
Pretty Poison. Anthony Perkins and Tuesday Weld in a 1968 murder tale filmed in Massachusetts. Lorenzo Semple Jr. took a New York Film Critics Award for his screenplay. CH.7. 9:30 p.m. Color...
NABOKOV IS among the most "writerly" of writers, consciously making use of a whole series of poses and tones to tell his transparent tale, intervening to remind the reader of the creator behind it all. For a man who despises the novel of ideas, the telling is everything. Here it is accomplished through the voice guiding us within the transparent world, through bits of the psychoanalytic interrogation Person goes through after his crime, through a letter from old R., through a single quotation from Person's prison journal. The prose slips seamlessly from tone to tone, now reportorial, now lyrical...