Word: tales
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...help kicking up her skates in glee. "I love it," she bubbles about her stint with the Ice Capades. "Competition is just you and the record and the judges' marks," the Olympic gold-medal winner explains. "But an ice show is for entertainment, lots of glitter and fairy tale and fantasy." When her glitter days are over, Dorothy hopes to teach skating to blind and handicapped youngsters. "If they're blind, you hold their hand," she says. "Soon they're skating just like anyone else." Well, not like Dorothy...
...Super Bowl time, and the tale of two cities, Denver and Dallas, is shouted antiphonally from towering stadium tiers: It is the best of times! It is the best of times! It is the season for bumper stickers and bunting and bragging in bars, for celebration and civic pride. Time for whimsy and WE'RE NO.l!, for good cheer and bad bets. It is a time warp, where the young dream of growing up and the old remember youth, and in the delirious identification with a winning football team, neither fantasy nor reminiscence seems foolish. The game becomes a bond...
...didn't have to be so long, or so intense. Had Bertolucci felt more kindly toward his audiences, he could have made his tale a simple epic--45 years of conflict between landlords and peasants in northern Italy, living out a history most of us already know. He could have shown us the breakdown of the traditional patronage system under the influence of industrialization, the rise of peasant leagues, the landlords' reaction and the spread of fascism without involving us so totally; or he could have shown us the characters' interaction without making such a detailed effort to place their...
...Flann O'Brien Reader aids and abets this judgment. Flannophile Stephen Jones has collected samples from four novels, a long Gaelic tale, stories, essays, teleplays and reams of humorous journalism. Jumbled together in this manner, the pieces gradually reveal a single mind behind the pseudonyms, one that was drunk with words and more than ready to defend fair language at the drop of a solecism...
...which language, either. Flann was comfortable in German, French and Latin, although his English prose style was most thoroughly affected by his knowledge of Gaelic. He regularly mocked those nationalists and bicycling anthropologists who made the preservation of Gaelic a sacred mission. In The Poor Mouth (1941) a long tale written in the old language, O'Brien shows a linguist from Dublin religiously transcribing the grunts of a western Irish pig. Flann even joked about the impulse that led him to learn his native tongue: "Having nothing to say, I thought at the time that it was important...