Word: tales
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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BABETTE'S FEAST From Isak Dinesen's tale of two spinsters and their mysterious French cook, Gabriel Axel has brewed a quietly delectable comedy...
...York Times Reporter Alex S. Jones and TIME Associate Editor Susan Tifft, is due next year.) House of Dreams can be read in several ways: as a love story between Barry Bingham Sr. and his wife Mary, as a guide to how not to rear children, as a cautionary tale about self-deception. But most of all, House of Dreams is an appalling chronicle of how cruelly relatives can treat one another...
Deep in the bowels of the building, the employees toil in cramped, poorly ventilated rooms, working up to 70 hours a week without overtime. A Dickensian tale about a 19th century sweatshop? Hardly. The scene takes place in the mail "folding room" of the U.S. House of Representatives, where workers have long complained about "prison-like" conditions of employment...
Based on the novel by Gogol, the opera has all the marks of a major work except memorable music. Gogol's irresistible tale of the scheming Chichikov (the splendid high baritone Igor Morozov), who would "buy" dead serfs in order to build a bogus prosperity on their collateral, holds the stage splendidly. The handsome duplex set by Designer Valery Levental is a sky- above, mudslinging-below construct. But beyond the "aria portraits" that graphically limn each of the principal characters, Dead Souls contains every cliche in the state manual, including the obligatory lament for the suffering people that has been...
...travel bags could talk, Laurence Barrett's two-wheeler would have quite a tale to tell. As TIME's White House correspondent from 1981 to 1985, Barrett -- and his luggage -- accompanied Ronald Reagan to Asia once, Europe four times and California constantly. But when Barrett, now the magazine's national political correspondent, plucked his suitcase off a plane last month, he found its sides broken and its locks sprung. "It perished pitifully," he says...