Word: tales
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...insistence that he has done nothing specifically wrong simply infuriates him more. After the requisite number of tears and drinking bouts, Elgin is forced to realize that he had deceived himself throughout the relationship; Caroline is not a perfect princess and their love did not a fairy tale make. Elgin's child-like dream of a relationship more exalted than a callous one-night stand is smashed unmercifully. His realization that he loved Caroline only as long as she reciprocated becomes an important lesson...
...brazen stick-up at a post-fight party in Atlanta, at which all of the guests were figures from Harlem's underworld. Its perpetrators were executed one by one, a justice meted out not by police but by the robbers' underworld victims. The real world intrudes relentlessly in this tale, a real world alien to Paper Lion...
Eric Carle's bright, elemental The Grouchy Ladybug (Crowell; $6.95) is about a mite spoiling for a fight. But every opponent has a stinger, a scent or a size that is superior. Carle has designed the book to fit the tale: as the heroine meets larger animals, the pages grow in size. None of the confrontations manage to sweeten the insect's disposition. That transformation is accomplished by powers that neither ladybug nor reader can resist: hunger and exhaustion...
Considerable evidence already exists. During the past year, a federal grand jury, a House subcommittee and a New York State legislative office have been investigating the cartel's operations. They have turned up documents that tell an amazing tale of market rigging. The cartel-known as the Club to its members-was organized by the Canadian government, initially to prevent what in 1972 looked like an imminent drop in the price of one of Canada's most important export commodities. At the time, the world supply of uranium exceeded demand by 400%, according to some estimates...
Flesh and Blood begins like another version of Rocky. The tale of his protagonist, Bobby Fallon, does not blossom into a sweet romance with a girl who becomes very beautiful when she takes off those big glasses of hers. Rather, Fallon falls in love with his mother to set the stage for an incestuous relationship that reveals nothing but perversity, lacking in any sort of meaning, and leaving the book without much purpose or plot...