Word: tales
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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From the look of it, Veteran Actress Jacqueline Bisset is finally in over her head. During six weeks on The Deep, a new movie based on Author Peter Benchley's tale of treasure hunting off Bermuda, Bisset has spent much of her time in scuba gear under 80 ft. of water. Apart from some nasty jellyfish stings, the actress's worst moment came during a subaqueous scene with Co-Star Nick Nolte that called for her to lose her mouthpiece and head for the surface. "His bubbles came up from beneath me and I couldn...
...disputes that tore apart university campuses throughout China, as well as being involved in the debates within Peking's small foreign community. Their narrative is interwoven with description of the events in their own microcosm of China's students, giving the book the sense of being a traveller's tale as well as a well-researched academic work. Like William Hinton's Fanshen, The Wind has an impact a straight history could not have achieved; but even the Miltons seem bewildered by many aspects of the Cultural Revolution, as if they, too, could not quite fathom the allegory and thetoric...
...Hugo and Nebula awards as best science fiction novel of the year, and rapidly became an underground cult classic. In 1969, a sequel appeared, Dune Messiah, the further adventures of Paul Atreides, Muad'Dib, and Emperor of the Fremen. Now Herbert has presented us with another, final tale of Arrakis, the Dune planet--a sort of a sequel to a sequel. Like most sequels, Children of Dune recalls the worst things about the first two books...
...classicism, however, is another man's cliché. It may be that audiences will no longer respond to so familiar a tale and, truth to tell, the trail that Clint Eastwood's Josey follows is a very long one, with a fair amount of dull slogging along the way. On the other hand, the film has its pleasures as well. For example, and not a moment too soon, Josey allies himself with Chief Dan George, playing a wise and humorous old Indian, much the way he did in Little Big Man. Then, too, Eastwood as a director manages...
...ghosts and obsessions. British Author Derek Marlowe, best known for A Dandy in Aspic, pits Lytton's prim England against sensual Haiti, Catholicism against voodooism, the terrors of a feverish imagination against the banality of a tourist's experience. What starts out as a thin, sinister tale ends as a psychological chiller finely wrought for any season...