Word: tales
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...writer's vendetta or recklessness are entitled to recompense. "We must be free to fictionalize, but we can't hurt people with the exercise of our freedom," says Spence. Six years ago he represented a former Miss Wyoming, Kimerli Pring, in a suit against Penthouse, which ran a tale about the sexual feats of a fictional Miss Wyoming. Though an appeals court threw out the lower-court award of $12.5 million, the case sent a shiver through publishers. Another shudder had come with a 1979 decision on the novel Touching. A California psychologist who ran nude therapy groups convinced...
...vintage Reagan, so much so that many of the passages -- from the ruminations on "we the people," to the need to allow God back into the classroom, to the tale about the "rising sun" on George Washington's chair at the Constitutional Convention -- evoked echoes of classics that had been uncorked as far back as the 1980 campaign. His claim that "we don't have deficits because people are taxed too little ((but)) because Big Government spends too much" was almost word for word out of his 1986 speech -- and out of countless campaign speeches over the years. The assertion...
...Misha" saw nothing but stagnation in the rigid Soviet system. In the U.S., however, his dreams have come true: he danced the gamut of Western choreography, now heads a major company, the American Ballet Theatre, and is making his third film, Giselle. His second movie, White Nights, tells the tale of an emigre star whose plane crashes in the Soviet Union, forcing him to outwit the KGB in a second flight to freedom...
ATWOOD'S WRITING was much vaunted 15 years ago when her novel Surfacing was hailed as one of the best books of the '70s. One of the deficiencies of The Handmaid's Tale--and maybe the Atwood genre in general--is that its prediction of a society where a woman's best function is to reproduce is quite unbelievable...
...CARTER'S fiction is far funnier than any fairy tale or erudite vignette. The first story in Saints and Strangers, "The Fall River Axe Murders," recreates some of the events and personalities involved in Lizzie Borden's murder of her parents. Since the events of the story are already preordained--as they are in fairy tales--Carter's weapons are atmosphere, humor and meticulous research...