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Word: tales (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with that, the 98-year history of Brown football was complete. For more information on this truly sad tale, please contact the Brown Sports Information Office...

Author: By Michael K. Savit, | Title: Savoir-Faire | 10/30/1976 | See Source »

Pucker-Safrai is fond of this Spanish-born artist; he has had 5 shows here over the past 6 years. The two series presently on exhibit, "Folklore" and "Circus," justify the gallery's committment; Kieff proves himself a master of polished bronze. The "Folklore" works, like tales, sweep through time and space. Symbolic continuums of metal, they demand time to trace their complex curves and planes, yet unify their motion in abstract patterns which seem as natural, yet are as carefully structured, as plot elements in a folk tale (three brothers, wicked step-mothers). "Ciecus" is more subtly rooted...

Author: By Eleni Constantine, | Title: GALLERIES | 10/28/1976 | See Source »

...tale is dominated by his relationship with his sister Eliza. Yes, it is incestuous, but as in Ada, incest has a private, figurative significance. Wilbur's and Eliza's love and loneliness are conveyed in a slurry of short scenes, part science fiction, part dreamlike shorthand, whose allusions the author seems unwilling to share fully with his reader. Instead of ideas, he offers whimsy; instead of feeling, merely sentiment. Vonnegut calls his method "situational poetry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Goodbye Indianapolis | 10/25/1976 | See Source »

...rural folk tale, this musical is very tongue in chic. Self-mocking humor, stylish performances and a stomping vitality convert the original Eudora Welty novella about a Mississippi Robin Hood into a Broadway romp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Mississippi Romp | 10/25/1976 | See Source »

What would a fairy tale be without a wicked stepmother to impede the lovers? Barbara Lane plays the role up to the hammy hilt. The dances shiver the floorboards. Gerald Freedman directs at a cannonball pace without sacrificing the illusion that the show is taking place in an enchanted glade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Mississippi Romp | 10/25/1976 | See Source »

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