Word: tales
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...down and only 1,200 ft. out from the sunbathers on Cape Cod's Marconi Beach, Clifford is salvaging booty from the Whydah, a 100-ft.-long pirate galley that foundered on a sandbank in 1717. "Everyone grew up knowing the story," recalls Clifford, who first heard the tale of sunken treasure from his crusty, Cape Cod-born uncle. "She was part of our lore...
...could (and did) attempt to set a new speed record between Paris and Saigon, who could crash in the Sahara and survive, rescued by Bedouins. He was also the acclaimed author of such international best sellers as the novel Night Flight (1931) and the children's tale The Little Prince (1943). As if these achievements did not generate sufficient glamour, Antoine de Saint- Exupery also managed a death that was both heroic and mysterious. At 44, he had won permission to fly photoreconnaissance missions over his native France. On July 31, 1944, he took off from an Allied base...
...digging. Last year, after two reporters fished a stenographer's notes from a trash can outside a grand jury courtroom, the paper's revelations based on those notes nearly blew Governor William Sheffield out of office for alleged involvement in a state office- leasing scam. Readers gobbled up the Tale of the Trash Can Papers, as well as the News's coverage (including a regular column by Weaver) of a state senate impeachment investigation, which Sheffield survived by a vote...
...Ferguson. That night the two 26-year-olds went to sleep as husband and wife and, thanks to a wedding-gift title from Her Majesty, Duke and Duchess of York. Five years ago, when Prince Charles took Lady Diana Spencer for his wife, the occasion was rich with fairy-tale solemnity. As the heir to the throne exchanged troths with a bashful girl just past her teens, it seemed that Prince Charming rode with Sleeping Beauty in a coach of glass. When Charles' younger brother and Diana's fourth cousin wed last week, it was a jollier occasion, a larkish...
...work, including the attractive corps de ballet and the exquisite tutus, designed by Franca Squarciapino. Washington Square, set to Charles Ives' music, is a complete fiasco, 70 minutes of bombastic, step- ridden choreography, including another inflated role, the father, often danced by Nureyev. As choreographer, he opened out James' tale of emotional suffocation by adding such empty flourishes as a street band, a corps of floozies dressed as the Statue of Liberty and even the statue itself...