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Word: talese (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Perhaps the only disheartening aspect of the summer entertainment scene has been the apparent retirement of Brother Blue, a legendary singer of songs and teller of tall tales. After a few appearances early in the season, he all but dropped out of sight. Wherever he is, however, he's probably...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: You Can Put Me Out On the Street | 8/14/1981 | See Source »

"Here is the stuff of which fairy tales are made: the Prince and Princess on their wedding day. But fairy tales usually end at this point with the simple phrase 'They lived happily ever after.' This may be because fairy tales regard marriage as an anticlimax after the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Royal Task | 8/10/1981 | See Source »

Venture capitalists prefer to tell tales of their big scores: the $1.5 million stake in Apple Computer in 1978 by Venrock Associates that grew to $100 million or the $25 million investment in 1974 by New Court Securities Corp. and others in Federal Express, the airfreight company, that is currently...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Boom Time in Venture Capital | 8/10/1981 | See Source »

As in "Heavy, man, heavy." All the fantasies in this animated anthology concern a glowing green meteor that rolls around heaven all day, bringing troubles to all who touch it. These are variously comic, terrifying and erotic (if live actors were seen doing what drawn figures occasionally do here, the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Rushes: Aug. 10, 1981 | 8/10/1981 | See Source »

Jackie Torrence, originally out of Granite Quarry, N.C., gives Appalachian Mountain tales her own Earth Mother Afro twist. Eyes rolling, hands fluttering, laughter spilling up and over, she can jolly an audience as nobody else. But watch out for the little sting afterward! Uncle Remus is not safe in her...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Maine: Storytellers Cast Their Ancient Spell | 8/3/1981 | See Source »

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