Word: tales
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pass the rest of their lives crippled and ill. But other victims are more fortunate. Rescued by Britain's growing legion of hedgehog fanciers, they are gently bundled off to the country's only hedgehog clinic, St. Tiggywinkle's. Named for the hedgehog washerwoman of Beatrix Potter nursery-tale fame, the hospital is equipped to deal with every affliction, from broken bones to deflated spines. St. Tiggywinkle's wards house 150 to 200 prickly patients. Nearly all are auto casualties, though some are victims of dog or cat attacks, and one was admitted after being mauled by a rhinoceros during...
Slowly, the big man begins to speak. Slowly, the intrepid reporter begins to listen. The big man tells a tale of loss, of suffering, of sturm, and of drang. But there is humor, too, in his voice. A quiet resolution. The firm determination of a man who refuses to be squashed by the turmoil of uncertain fate...
...moviemakers obviously aren't aware of this. This year has marked the release of a slew of films that focus on pre-teens, such as My Life as A Dog, Russkies and Big Shots. Now John Boorman, director of The Emerald Forest, gets into the act with his own tale of growing up, the semi-autobiographical film Hope and Glory...
Tama Janowitz's A Cannibal in Manhattan surely will rank at year's end as the singularly most annoying book of 1987. Janowitz somehow has failed to make an amusing tale out of the clever premise of a marriage between a purple-skinned polygamist and a rich Manhattan heiress. Her story of a reformed cannibal, Mgungu Yabba Mgungu, a native of the South Pacific island of New Burnt Norton, who visits New York City and finds a wife is pretentious, irritating and--worst of all--just plain boring to read...
...Hillel group will perform "The Wave," the story of a meeting between a crazy student and his professor and "Oral History," the tale of an interview of an elderly Jewish woman by a Marxist feminist...