Word: tales
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tale of roughriding diplomacy and engineering miracles...
...studios have joined the space race as well. Fox hopes to plow some of its Star Wars profits into Alien, the tale of an otherworldly creature who takes to mugging U.S. spacemen. American International Pictures plans a spacey adventure titled The Incredible Melting Man, in which a returning astronaut poses some sticky problems for the p.r. boys at NASA. The poor fellow has to gulp down gallons of blood in order to keep from liquefying. Universal Pictures plans to remake The Thing from Another World, originally directed by Howard Hawks in 1951, and The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957), which will...
Sillitoe handles his hero's awakening with compassion-and with none of the prattling about narrowness blighting young lives that could serve as the moral of such a tale. If anything, his message is the reverse: people can learn in spite of what they are taught; the residue of ignorantly directed affection is both pain and the memory of love. At the end William muses: "His father had pushed him into it [the army] but he forgave him for that: we have to forgive our parents if we want our children to forgive us." In a different context, this...
Charles L. Mee's story about his own reaction to Nixon's resignation is a tale from a member of that older generation born just before World War II, and there is much more to his reaction than a shrugging off of the events of that day in the summer of 1974. In fact, except for a couple of short fantasy episodes, Nixon is rarely mentioned. His betrayal of the country is taken as a given, and the book revolves around Mee's efforts to deal with what he calls the death of the Republic, and the people who killed...
...college dormitory. An on-and-off teacher, Coover has won a campus reputation as an avant-gardist who can do with reality what a magician does with a pack of cards: shuffle the familiar into unexpected patterns. Devotees religiously pass along The Universal Baseball Association, Inc., an eerie tale of a recluse who invents and maintains an eight-team baseball league and the lives of hundreds of players. First editions of his first novel (The Origin of the Brunists) and a collection of short stories (Pricksongs & Descants) are prized by their owners and generally unavailable on the open market...