Word: tales
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Oedipus Rex: now there was a great mystery plot. The detective is the murderer; his mother is the femme fatale; his father is the victim. And Faust: a good chase tale. Guy sells his soul to the devil, then chases after secrets of life and death. Today, though, the mysteries are more mundane, the deals more damning. Like why in hell was Angel Heart -- a detective story about secret loves and profane pacts -- ever considered worthy of an X by the movie industry's rating board...
Fortunately, common sense intervened, and Dewitt was able to preserve his majestic form unscathed and unpunctured. This survival enabled him to continue viewing classic pictures, among which is The Marriage of Maria Braun (Somerville Theater). Directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, this 1978 film tells the tale of post-World-War-II Germany through the life of the title character. A ruthlessly ambitious but visually stunning woman, Maria Braun (Hanna Schygulla) starts off her career as a whore, servicing American soldiers, blackmarketeers and anyone else who has cash. Braun quickly moves up in the world, settling in with a business firm...
Statistics tell an incomplete tale, however. Duncan is Harvard's ice to fellow Co-Captain Keith Webster's fire, the cool floor leader who clams the young Crimson squad. Duncan is also a great ball-handler for a big man, and probably Harvard's finest passer...
...study of the Challenger explosion, journalist Malcolm McConnell exposes the seamy side of NASA's space shuttle program. His research unearthed details about the disaster that didn't appear in newspapers or the official report of the Rogers Commission. After reading McConnell's tale of the compromises and duplicities that riddled NASA's attempt to develop a reusable space vehicle, you'll be astonished that the Challenger--or any other shuttle--flew a single successful mission...
...convoluted tale began in April 1985, when two of North's shadowy private partners, Iranian-born Businessman Albert Hakim and retired Air Force Major General Richard Secord, hired a 163-ft. Danish ship, the Veralil, to ferry weapons to the contras. The ship was loaded with Soviet AK-47 guns in Poland, then sent to Portugal to pick up ammunition. Documents said the ship was headed for Guatemala, but she docked in Honduras, where the contras collected the weapons...