Word: tales
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...YORK STORIES. In this trio of vignettes, Francis Coppola belly flops with his tale about New York City rich kids. But two out of three ain't bad: Martin Scorsese's crafty sketch of a downtown painter and Woody Allen's comedy about the ultimate Jewish mother...
...prose more intense and flavorful, a sense of scene more convincing and a story more tightly wound yet believable than the brand-name superstars. And occasionally an outright newcomer, not hardened thus far by his agent's insistent counsel to repeat what worked before, will come up with a tale that delights by being absolutely original...
...minutes of fame, Bordes went into hiding in Paris. But when her businessman husband was tracked down there, he explained that theirs was a marriage of convenience to help Bordes escape arranged matrimony in India. However titillating, the tale had yet to live up to the epic proportions of the Profumo case. Bordes' liaisons didn't seem all that dangerous. One newspaper even labeled the Bordes affair a mere "storm...
...fate of SAIS Cahuide has become a familiar tale in Peru, which is reeling from the double punch of guerrilla insurgency and economic stagflation. The confluence of crises has brought the country to the brink of bankruptcy and shaken the nation's institutional foundations. While a military coup does not appear imminent, the basic conditions for civilian democracy are ! eroding at an alarming rate. Approximately 150,000 Peruvians emigrated last year. Rural families who lack the money to leave have migrated to urban centers, straining city budgets and turning the pueblos jovenes, or shantytowns, into breeding grounds for subversion...
...Heidi Chronicles tells of a heroine who grew up a feminist, as did the writer, in a tale that tempers anger with humor and a sense of loneliness...