Word: tales
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Were Here! In the course of writing the film Personal Services -- a raffishly surreal account of Cynthia Payne's career as a divinely unhypocritical London madam that illuminated American screens early this year -- Leland learned enough about her early life to offer this prequel. And a marvelously uncluttered tale...
...more reasonable complaint is that Oates' taste for disaster frequently exceeds the appetite of her readers. This was not always so, especially in earlier novels like them (1969), a tale of desperate lives played out over 30 years, from the Depression to the Detroit riots of 1967. Timing helped; the agitated style of the book matched the panicky mood...
...unconventional capability for eight years. In the wake of the disastrous 1980 hostage rescue attempt in Iran, the Pentagon established the closest thing the nation has ever had to a secret army. These clandestine operations and intelligence units are still around. But their history has largely been a sorry tale of bureaucratic bungling and infighting. Says one special operations officer: "The units still exist, but their morale and our ability to use them are in shambles...
NATION: The Army' s secret army, a tale of lofty goals but disappointing results...
...Judy Tenuta, 31, at least has no problem differentiating herself from a gaggle of rising young female comics. She arrives onstage toting an accordion and wearing a tatty Grecian-style gown -- a fairy-tale princess dressed by Woolworth's. Her monologues alternate between airy twittering (she refers to herself as the "goddess" and the "petite flower") and truck-stop sarcasm. To the guy who comes on to her in a punk-rock bar, she growls, "I was lookin' for someone a little closer to the top of the food chain." Feminist frustration is mixed with existential nuttiness: "You know what...