Word: tales
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Atlanta house to mull over the future. Now, at last, Scarlett's petty-paced tomorrow is about to dawn-in a new novel and movie. Hollywood Producers Richard Zanuck and David Brown have won the right to produce a movie sequel to Margaret Mitchell's classic tale of the Old South, Gone With the Wind...
When this apocryphal tale was told at a recent conference of small college presidents, it was greeted with uneasy laughter. The fourth envelope is often too close at hand. Given the problems in higher education-entrenched faculties, rising expenses, enrollments expected to fall-college presidents can no longer expect long terms of easy-paced stewardship. Indeed their estimated tenure today is three to five years...
...they do, splendidly. There is the yarn about the innocent temptress from Biloxi, Miss., and the odd revenge she takes on the man who steals her away. That one is topped by the tale of the fastest Jeep in the world and a deadly race in the Mexican foothills. A graduate student contributes a chiller about a pack of man-eating cats in his home town...
Thus far, no fond literary genius has come forward to do for romance and tennis what the late P.G. Wodehouse did for love and golf in stories like The Heart of a Goof and The Clicking of Cuthbert. Nor has any opera or fairy tale yet taken up the game. Still, whenever a starry-eyed young thing with a shaky backhand contemplates courtship and marriage through mixed doubles, some dreadful figure should come out of the woodwork, wave a gnarled ringer and howl: "Beware, my pretty! Tennis may prove no bond but a curse." The best warning that exists...
...funereal, as it details the last week of J.B.'s life. Director Don Siegel excels at turning out saw-toothed melodramas (Dirty Harry), and likes to play along the grim edge where sullen threat turns to quick, obliterating violence. Not even in The Beguiled-a harrowingly beautiful gothic tale-has Siegel gone so far away from what is familiar...