Word: tales
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tale has been streamlined in the retelling but it is essentially true. It didn't take long for Sally Quinn to gain a reputation as a reporter with a good eye for the embarrassing quote and the hypocritical posture, which she had no trouble finding on the Washington social circuit. So controversial were her accounts of capital parties that, according to Quinn, hosts and hostesses stopped inviting working reporters, and she was invited only to those parties she agreed not to write about. "Once," says Quinn, "a well-known hostess remarked that to have a society reporter covering your party...
...from the Agency for International Development, he explained, and the second half was from the CIA, largely to help Eduardo Frei beat Marxist Salvador Allende in the next presidential election. Vekemans, who has now shifted his base of operations to Bogota, refused to give his version of the tale last week...
Many of the German contributions, such as Heinrich Campendock's woodcut of a sinister fairy tale world, show the influence of a melancholy expressionism. Max Beckmann turns his acerbic melancholy on German society in "Wrestling Match:" a joyful orchestra accompanies two headlocked wrestlers in front of high society onlookers who hoot from gilded balconies or eat delicacies at tables bordering the fight. In a lighter vein, Franz Marc characteristically uses animal symbolism in his woodcut "Creation." Lighter still is Dadaist Kurt Schwitters' "Composition with Profile," a well-composed, child-like doodling...
...must protest the decision to have Camillo substitute the humdrum word "undress" in discase thee instantly." "Discase " is a gem of a word (Shakespeare would use it again in The Tempest). Once you start this tinkering, where do you stop? The Winter's Tale has quite a number of obsolete or arcane terms that occur nowhere of obsolete or arcane terms that occur nowhere else in Shakespeare--such as neb, hoxes, callet, losel, pugging, dibble, caddises, barne, and pettitoes. Are these to be thrown out too? Let audiences do their homework, or suffer the consequences. (Some years back, Robert Graves...
...Madden offered Leontes, did spring at the chance and fall, there by making this not the local summer for The Winter's Tale the show is still well enough seasoned...