Word: tales
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Also lost in this tale of Harvard-hates-America was the news that Harvard invited Reagan to speak at its Commencement ceremonies in 1981. Reagan declined the invitation, but had he come to Cambridge, he almost certainly would have received an honorary degree as each year featured speaker traditionally does...
...Nelson saga, but it is first and foremost a rolling, highly entertaining chronicle of its own. I all of all kinds of deadpan golden nuggets of humor--greasy, love-to-hate-'em Williams; imperfect but irresistable heroes; hard drinking, good friends, good loving, heartache, strumming acoustic guitar accompaniment--the tale can sound too much like your generic hit country song. But as Doc sings, "We write what we live And we live what we write." And Bud Shrake's off-beat, unpretentious script and Man Rudolph's even-tempered, lively direction raise the film above good of boy mediocrity...
...rationale for the manicheistic tale is cops and robbers story (that's three sides, it you're keeping score) that takes place in downtown Chicago...
...that Harvard affiliates and non-affiliates alike won't eat it up--its publication date is today and it's already climbing the bestseller lists--or that it has no redeeming value. Segal does more with his stereotypes than, say, Alice Adams '46, whose Superior Women, a tale of Radcliffe in the '40s and the havoc it wreaked later, all but announced its conclusion halfway through. There are a few surprises...
SHAKESPEARE'S SCRIPI COMES with everything: incest, murder, madness, invasions, court intrigue, a setting luxurious enough for Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous, and an unrivaled richness of language. Ask anyone gazing into Larry "J.R." Hagman's eyes some Friday night: could anyone beat the tale of Claudius (Christopher Keyser) who murders his brother King Hamlet, marries his widow Gertrude (Thea Henry), revels in his incest-purchased court luxury, and dies at the hands of his ungrateful stepson, Prince Hamlet (Andrew Sullivan). Of the plot, I'll say no more--the midwestern English profs who pen Monarch Notes probably have...