Word: tales
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...opera is a congenial ghost story freely adapted from a Henry James tale...
...bestseller, The Honourable Schoolboy, was TIME Hong Kong Correspondent Bing Wong. In fact, he got involved with the book and author that are the subjects of this week's cover story well before Le Carré-David Cornwell, that is-began to write his tale of British intelligence and Far Eastern intrigue. Wong and Cornwell met in the summer of 1975 in Hong Kong. As Wong recounts, Cornwell "picked my brain" for background detail. Last October, when Cornwell returned to the city, Wong and the author "huddled in his hotel suite for two days, going over a first draft...
Perhaps the ugliest tale Kyemba offers concerns Amin's own family. In March 1974 the dictator suddenly divorced three of his four wives; the three, says Kyemba, had been unfaithful, as Amin found out. Five months later, the dismembered body of one of the former wives, Kay, was found in Kampala. For once, Kyemba exonerates Amin: "I do not believe, as I first did, that Amin had a direct hand in Kay's death." Instead, he writes, she died during an abortion that was being performed by her lover, a doctor. Kyemba speculates that the doctor dismembered...
...Chinese tale tells about a tyrannical prime minister of the 3rd century B.C. who assembled his courtier to test their loyalty. He had a deer brough before them and proclaimed it a horse. Those who imprudently disagreed paid the price of calling a horse a horse with their lives...
Straw into gold-but what's the point? The remainder of the fairy tale requires that the girl guess Rumpelstiltskin's name or give up her first-born child to him, and sure enough, Hamish's origins are unknown, at least to Elsa and the reader. Gemma ultimately reveals her husband's identity at the end of an amusing but overlong story of her introduction...