Word: tales
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...alumnae six years after they have left the campus to make their way in the working world. The 1977 off-Broadway cast included Glenn Close, Jill Eikenberry and Swoosie Kurtz. Her 1983 hit comedy, Isn't It Romantic, which ran for two years off-Broadway, is a thinly veiled tale of Wasserstein's relations with her own larger-than-life mother. But even here, Janie Blumberg, the playwright's alter ego, rejects a suffocating marriage with a very eligible doctor and utters Heidi-esque lines like "I made choices based on an idea that doesn't exist anymore." Still...
...YORK STORIES. In this trio of vignettes, Francis Coppola belly flops with his tale of rich kids. Two out of three ain't bad: Martin Scorsese's sketch of a downtown painter and Woody Allen's comedy about the ultimate Jewish mother...
BILLY BATHGATE by E.L. Doctorow (Random House; $19.95). A fictional Bronx boy, circa 1935, is accepted into the inner councils of the infamous Dutch Schultz gang and survives murderous adventures to tell a chilling and incendiary tale...
Loyalties is a candid, powerful memoir of his struggle to understand his ex- Communist parents. -- Nobel laureate William Golding winds up his seafaring trilogy. -- A rich tale of the I.R.A...
...movie finds nothing ambiguous in this tale. No student rebels, reform is achieved at miracle speed, all opposition is seen as opportunistic. In short, complexity is sacrificed to fast-food inspirationalism. After the cheers die and the tears dry comes the realization that Lean on Me is serving up empty emotional calories. They don't leave you sick, just hungry for an honest meal...