Word: talese
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Aprille with his shoures sote has arrived, and the lusty Wife of Bath, the boozy Miller, the testy Reeve and the greedy Merchant are all getting happily sloshed once more, along with the jolly Host of the wayside Tabard Inn. To Londoners' delight, Chaucer's Canterbury Tales has...
Most of the credit goes to Oxford's Nevill Coghill, the English literature professor who has long coached the university's famed Dramatic Society and recently directed several highbrow commercial productions, including the Burton-Taylor movie of Marlowe's Dr. Faustus (TIME, Feb. 23). Four years ago...
Only four of the original 24 tales are used-two in each act. But Chaucer loses remarkably little from the abridgement. First comes the Miller's Tale of Nicholas, the Oxford stud, Absolon, the clerk, and their rivalry for sexy Alison. Then comes the Reeve's account of...
PLAZA SUITE. If hotel walls had ears-and Neil Simon's comic prowess-they might tell tales as mirth-provoking as these three one-act plays. Directed by Mike Nichols, Suite manages to exercise the funny bone while keeping a sympathetic finger on the human pulse.
Small and intriguing tales like these surround the geneses of most of America's great films: think of all those people who told Selznick that Gone With The Wind would never sell. Unfortunately, The African Queen falls far short of greatness, selling short its colorful background, despite the efforts of...