Word: tales
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...basic problem seems to be one of methodology. The life and policies of Johnson are by now a familiar and oft-told tale, and Kearns, despite her experience working with Johnson in the White House, apparently didn't have much to add. She needed a new angle, something no one else had, and eventually settled on psychology. While not a professional psychologist, Kearns had had extensive conversations with Johnson in Texas, conservations in which he told all about his deepest inner feelings. In a series of heart-to-heart talks in which he would climb into her bed early...
...Winter's Tale. Presented by the Acting Company at the Charles St. Meetinghouse, 70 Charles St., through May 1. Performances Wednesday through Saturday at 8 p.m. Tickets...
INES DE CASTRO. This is the twelfth opera by the New York-born composer Thomas Pasatieri, 30; most of them have been performed either by U.S. regional opera companies or on television. A lurid tale of murder, intrigue and frustrated love, Ines de Castro builds to a climax in which the demented hero Dom Pedro places the cadaver of his true love Ines on the throne and declares her queen. Stage Director Tito Capobianco has conceived a stunning production that conveys most of the libretto's horror. What is called for musically is the power and sweep...
...perversely tells a tale against tale telling. In Usurpation (Other People's Stories) the narrator is "the sort of ignorant and acquisitive being who moons after magical tales." Soon she is buffeted by stories heard at a reading by a famous author, pressed on her in manuscript by a young aspirant, conjured out of her own imagination. Ultimately these intertwined fantasies knot themselves into a dilemma: the ghost of a Jewish poet orders her to choose between the "Creator or the creature. God or god. The Name of Names or Apollo." She chooses the Greek divinity and instantly becomes...
...bags to Bloomingdales, who attend B' nai Brith functions, who sit on park benches outside old age homes. I know I've been startled like this before-for instance, when a staid and jewel-bedecked elderly woman, whom I had automatically dismissed as uninteresting, somehow began to recount a tale of wandering barefoot and starving through wartime Russia with her little boy, begging for food and shelter. And there is the vague memory-did I invent it ?-of hearing my own grandmother tell a story of hiding in an oven while the Cossacks rode through her village in a pogrom...