Word: tales
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Galbraith's two previous novels were The Triumph, the story of a Central American dictator, and The McLandress Dimension, a tale of an inventor who, among other projects, creates a method of classifying people by the amount of time they spend not thinking about themselves...
This version of Carroll's classic children's tale certainly is modernized, steeped in allusions to current events and even featuring a rap song. But Alice in Wonderland: Film at Eleven has 130 years to coalesce and does not always do so with the greatest of ease...
Dzodin said ABC has worked hard to incorporate AIDS into prime-time television in both sitcoms and news programs. He described the tale of AIDS-infected Cynthia on "All My Children...
...island's siren song is simple and successful: "Come back to Jamaica," the slogan goes. But the way in which the giant U.S. ad agency Young & Rubicam landed the Caribbean country's business is a tale of bribery and racketeering, according to a federal grand jury in New Haven, Conn. Last week the panel indicted the ad agency on charges that it paid about $900,000 in kickbacks between 1981 and 1986 to win and keep the Jamaica Tourist Board's account...
...similar sort of success may await Some Can Whistle, McMurtry's 13th novel. If so, that will be a redemption of sorts for an uncharacteristical ly spotty performance between hard covers. Plot has given way to concocted situations, conversation displaced by laugh-track dialogue. Everything and everyone in the tale reeks of Hollywood, particularly the narrator...