Word: tales
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Full of bizarre images and powerful, if tortured emotions, Fernanda Eberstadt's Low Tide is well worth the read. It is the tale of Jezebel, a 19-year-old Manhattanite, and the two sons of her father's oldest friend. The latter pair are located in England where they squander their fabulous wealth in unimaginable ways...
...nation's TV viewers. That is above average but no larger than the audience for a typical episode of Magnum, P.I. The most popular three-parter of the season, ABC's Hollywood Wives, drew an unspectacular 22.8 rating, much lower than the blockbuster numbers predicted for the glitzy tale of Tinseltown...
Foreman has told the tale so many times he could do it without thinking; nonetheless, the telling puts him in a sweat. "I was walking in the dressing room, trying to cool down. I was telling myself, 'You don't have to box. You can retire to your ranch and die.' Die? Where did that come from? I didn't put that word in there. But the word kept sneaking into my head. Then a voice said, 'You believe in God. Why you scared to die?' I said, 'I can still give money to charities and cancer,' and the voice...
Webb, now 23, testified at last week's hearing that she had claimed she was raped because she feared she was pregnant after having sex with her boyfriend (she was not). To make her tale believable, she said, she had torn her clothes and inflicted the cuts and bruises. When her description of her assailant led to Dotson's arrest, she said, she stuck...
Judge Samuels, who presided at the original trial in 1979, found Webb's new testimony less credible than that of a seemingly terrified 16-year-old girl who had told a brutal tale of kidnaping, assault and rape. Also troubling were parts of Dotson's testimony last week. While a friend testified that he had spent the evening of the attack with Dotson and two others, Dotson said that he had spent much of the time sleeping in the back seat of a car while his companions were stopping at parties. He might have been separated from the group...