Word: tales
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...patchwork nature of the plot also makes it difficult to divine morals from the tale. Canfield is both guilty and a victim of circumstance. One is tempted to look for similarities between Canfield's fate and Agnew's, but there are simply too few parallels between the two cases and not enough clues in the book...
...Winter's Tale. By the Acting Company and good old Bill, at the Charles St. Meetinghouse, 70 Charles St. on Beacon Hill, Wed-Sat at 8 p.m., Tickets $3.50 on Thursday, $4.50 on Fri-Sat. It isn't clear to me how much it is on Wednesdays, sorry...
Something about Actress Trish Van Devere is bringing out the animal in her husband George C. Scott. Occasionally boorish off-camera, Scott looks truly boarish after a daily three-hour makeup job for his co-starring role in the fairy tale Beauty and the Beast. The production, being filmed in England, will run as a 90-minute NBC special in the U.S. and as a feature movie in other countries. The pair hopes it will fare better than their 1974 joint effort, The Savage Is Loose, which the critics castigated. Purrs Trish: "We are trying to do Beauty...
...second side the disco-style is given another try. "Hey Negrita" fares somewhat better, drawing from Latin and Carribean rhythms which add spice to the otherwise rather mechanical beat. Jagger's voice, strained to cracking and loaded with insinuation, narrates this first person tale of a poor man's encounter with a South American whore. "One last dollar/I've got my pride/I'll cut your balls and I'll tan your hide." Subtle? The Stones always did have a way with words. But like "Hot Stuff," "Hey Negrita" suffers at the hands of too much repetition...
...Dragon. Yevgeny Schwarz's allegory about dictatorship in the Soviet Union in 1943. A nice fairy tale, with a happy ending. Worth seeing, but don't plan to do anything afterwards--it's three hours long. At Currier House May 6-8 at 8 p.m. Tickets $1.75 at Holyoke Center...