Word: tales
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...early '90s, well before his mother Nina moved here to Plains with him, his three sisters and his brother James Earl. For with all his tendrils of memory and hearsay that reach from the main stem back toward the Revolution, England and Ireland, Mr. Alton starts his own tale where he knows it to start-with calamity his own eyes saw up close...
...elder daughter Gloria, two years younger than Jimmy, is also close by on the west edge of Plains with her husband Walter Spann. She tries to place herself for you at once and tell a too simple tale-"I'm a farm wife and nothing else; listen, I'm country." Country covers a good many things-most of the life of mankind, for one-but what she seems to be asking to mean is naive, innocent. Again the face talks when the mouth reneges-her mother's face on Gloria, 30 years younger, broader, lined differently...
Chain-smoking American cigarettes and sipping Swiss mineral water, Bukovsky recounted the astonishing tale of his release from jail and his deportation. On a Friday two weeks ago, he had been told by prison authorities in Vladimir to get his things together and prepare to change cells. He was then put in a small KGB (secret police) van and whisked to another jail in Moscow. A ranking official of the KGB personally accompanied the handcuffed prisoner to Zurich on a chartered Aeroflot jet. Once the plane was no longer flying over Soviet territory the official unlocked the cuffs...
CARRIE. The banal and the supernatural frighteningly, yet touchingly, juxtaposed in Director Brian De Palma's tale of how the high school prom went all wrong. Sissy Spacek is spooky as the strangely gifted heroine...
...fairy tale, it's magic, it's entertainment," says Choreographer George Balanchine. "It's like beautiful flowers: they don't tell you anything, but they make you feel good." Balanchine is talking about the ballet known in Germany as Der Nussknacker, in France as Casse-Noĩsette and throughout the English-speaking world as The Nutcracker. Not even Walt Disney could top it. Right on stage a Christmas tree grows magically to an enormous height. A nutcracker doll springs to life, defends its young mistress, Marie, against an army of huge mice, then turns into...