Word: tales
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...change me by throwing water at me--or money. But then TRADING PLACES (Harvard Science Center) might tell a different story. Eddie Murphy and Dan Ackroyd reenact the old Prince and Pauper tale under the guise of a special experiment, the kind without flashing lights. Ackroyd, born with spoon in mouth and (as ever) no expression on face, plays the arrogant Rich Kid who loses it all so [the] thief sans trust fund ends up with his loot. The rich old Social Scientists who set both of them up want to settle the old Nature versus Nurture debate, where Nature...
Each year, it seems, the Dr. Seuss tale is edited more and more in favor of commercials. This year such Grinch destruction was taken to an extreme. As reflected in the title, the central part of the story is how the Grinch actually steals Christmas. Perhaps the most enjoyable part is seeing the Grinch removing Christmas paraphenalia and sliming his way around the Who-houses. Most everyone harbors enough Scrooge-like thoughts to make this most satisfying. But most of this section wound up on the editing room floor. No more can children or any one else see our hero...
Cable's freedom from network restrictions, however, has also given rise to more ambitious fare. HBO last summer anticipated this fall's anthology trend with its fine Ray Bradbury Theater, three original stories by the famed fantasy writer. The tales were seductive and creepy (in The Crowd, a man notices that the same group of bystanders shows up at car accidents across the city). Three more episodes are scheduled for this season. Shelley Duvall's Faerie Tale Theater on Showtime, meanwhile, continues to provide imaginative family fare. In December, Duvall will launch a second Showtime series, Tall Tales, which will...
...exposure in a Playboy interview ("I had a super skinny morphology throughout my youth") or indulging in speculation about the culinary orgasms of Brillat-Savarin ("BS desires the word as he desires truffles") or performing with routine ease a classic clinical dissection of text ("A Textual Analysis of a Tale of Poe"), it is with an incomparable delicacy of taste that he transforms personal fetishes into profound insight...
Even though the book starts out dull with a fairy tale about the discovery of Texas, it hits high gear after about 50 pages. From then on, all of Michener's characters wander through, Texas history like threads around the core of a baseball...