Word: tales
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...golden-haired Cinderella grown up, a fairy-tale heiress to a legacy of ambition and success, a curiosity, a sex symbol. As did Jackie and Ethel in their time and turn, Joan Kennedy has become a public personality in her own right. On the gilt and antique gristmill that is the Washington cocktail circuit, she has been no less a source of speculation in recent months than Teddy himself. One day, she is a shy, self-styled homebody. The next, she is playing the piano on nationwide television, or shocking Washington with dresses cut down to there or slit...
...Tale out of School. During the Six-Day War, the book reveals, Dayan wanted the advancing Israeli forces to halt at the Mitla Pass or at Jidi in the Sinai. He opposed their going as far as the Suez Canal because, he argued, the waterway was essential to Egyptian prestige, and the war could never truly end with Israeli forces dug in on its bank. The army, however, reached the banks of the canal before Dayan's orders could effectively stop it. During the 1969-70 "war of attrition," he often visited the Israeli fortifications on the canal, which...
...tale be true? The Soviets know the identites of the nine bodies found at the Trident crash site, but they will say only that the victims were in uniform, that one was a woman and that there were signs of an armed struggle in the aircraft, suggesting a hijack attempt. Experts tend to believe the fantastic story of Lin's flight, though they concede that the account of the assassination attempts might have been fabricated to make it less embarrassing for Mao to purge the man whom he had personally designated his "closest comrade in arms and successor." After...
...disaster-prone, and they rather relish it. Muggings, burglaries, strikes and technological failures of all kinds form part of the daily news fare. A New Yorker would count the day lost if he could not regale an out-of-towner, or a friend, or himself, with some vivid tale of megalopolitan woe. The past master of this urban gallows humor is Neil Simon, and in The Prisoner of Second Avenue he has written his finest play since The Odd Couple...
...turning point for me came, I guess, with Guess Who's Coming to Dinner. The critics said it was overly simplistic, but it was designed to be a fairy tale...This black guy had it made, he didn't need Tracy and Hepburn. They were basic 40's, 50's liberals. If they hadn't let their daughter get married, it would only have been because Poltier's black...