Word: tales
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...happen to be quite familiar with the sordid, little history of Joseph Menn and the somewhat bigger more sordid story of the ISO. So at the risk of making you nauseous, gentle reader, we wish to relate to some of the choicest parts of this tale in the interests of public sanitation...
...families, and a few had to be returned for use during the preparation of the exhibit. One of Singh's assistants was married in a bridal outfit with a veil embroidered in gold that looks, to a Western eye, like nothing so much as formal wear for a fairy-tale princess...
...unprecedented for him, between two wholly sympathetic characters. And because Shepard has directed the play to be uproarious, it casts new light on all his work. In retrospect, his eerie lowlifes seem more farcical, less perversely heroic. His characters frequently lack a core of conviction. In this tale, some have so little sense of self that they cannot recall whether events happened to them or to someone they knew. Moreover, Shepard characters rarely speak lyrically; he keeps their language as mud-bound as their lives. Plummer is allowed poetically disjointed speeches only because her character is brain damaged. That infirmity...
...that opened on Broadway last week. Composer- Author Rupert Holmes has framed Drood within a Victorian music-hall pastiche, and the actors play both Dickens' characters and the rowdy, self- mocking buskers of a troupe nearly as atrocious as the Crummles company in Nicholas Nickleby. Much of the rambling tale survives, but the wry tone, the hallmark of Dickens' work, does...
When we were very young, we learned that George Washington had confessed to chopping down a cherry tree because he couldn't tell a lie; we were still young when we learned that Parson Weems had propagated this little tale in an effort to edify the youth of the new nation, that the chocolate hatchets sold in candy stores on Feb. 22 were all part of the commercial exploitation of legend...