Word: tales
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...honorary kid, floats through his books on pure talent. If he does not seem to work very hard at his writing, well, they repealed the Protestant ethic after all and insouciance is one of his major attractions. His new book, for instance, is a warm, wobbly tale about a reclusive young man who works in San Francisco in a library for unpublishable books. It is Brautigan's happy idea that life's losers, an astonishing number of whom seem to be writers, can bring their mad, lame manuscripts to this library, where they will be welcomed, registered...
...omission. On one occasion, he relates, Brigitte Bardot arrived at an Elysee Palace reception in a hussar-style pajama suit. De Gaulle murmured to Malraux, "What luck, a soldier!" Then to Bardot he said, "What good fortune, madame. You are in uniform and I am in civilian clothes!" Another tale recounts the time the nearsighted general plunged into a crowd without his glasses. "Bonjour, monsieur le curé," he said to one man, apparently taking him for a priest. "But, mon général, I'm your gorille [bodyguard]." "Alors," said De Gaulle, "bonjour, monsieur le gorille...
...This Tale of the South Pacific has added enormously to the market value of Gauguin's paintings, but it is false in almost every detail. Gauguin's contact with the Noble Savage served mainly to give him the pox. He spoke barely a word of the Tahitians' language, understood nothing of their rituals and social structures, never ate yams or fish when he could afford tinned asparagus and claret, and was prone to copy his scenes of native life from tourist photographs purchased in the grubby colonial port of Papeete. The most advertised side of the legend...
...Most Important Man, Menotti has turned out music that follows the pleasant, well-traveled road of early 20th century Italian opera. His story is a simplistic, easy-to-follow tale of blacks v. whites. In a contemporary "white state" in Africa, a young black scientist, Toime Ukamba (Baritone Eugene Holmes), makes a discovery-happily undisclosed in the libretto-that will not only be beneficial to all mankind but will make the country that possesses it the most powerful in the world. The rulers of the state are something less than thrilled that a black has become their "most important...
What follows is a bizarre and Gothic tale. Zarkin's new star becomes Lylah not only in appearance but in personality, thereby causing the director to make the same emotional errors in handling the new Lylah as he had with the original. Of course, these personal conflicts between Zarkin and his star-lover turn out to have more than a little to do with the original Lylah's strange death-and, unsurprisingly, history repeats itself...