Word: talese
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Edgar Allan Poe was the first great master of the new art of the uncanny. In The Telltale Heart, The Masque of the Red Death and The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar, he made the horror story a respectable literary form. But only a handful of literary terrorists...
Many of Patti's lyrics are in fact scarcely intelligible fairy tales about serpents, old rock heroes and violence. Her talk, like her lyrics, bristles with imagery that is sometimes startling, sometimes merely peculiar. "Experience piles," she says. "You go through so much pain and pleasure, and pleasure and...
The only book by a former White House employee to delve into Kennedy's sexual activities as President is Traphes Bryant's Dog Days at the White House. A temperamental, unreliable source, Bryant was an electrician and kennel keeper at the White House from Truman's days...
MOST SCROOGELIKE CORPORATE BEHAVIOR: The networks' insistence on spoiling Christmas before it gets started by scheduling annual reruns (some for the eighth and tenth times) of animated fairy tales that were lousy to begin with. Like the broken-down crooners propped up in front of too many holiday "specials...
"Every child must have something to ignore/ And that's what parents were created for." So observed Ogden Nash, and as if in agreement, Mercer Mayer has produced Two More Moral Tales (Four Winds; $3.50). No adult is needed to explain these textless jokes about pigs who put on...