Word: talese
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Survivors told tales of heroism and almost miraculous rescues. William Cardwell was trapped on an upper deck when he saw a man carrying a baby to safety. "I saw one man climbing up seats with a small baby in his teeth," he recounted. "It was unbelievable." Cardwell had been trying...
These days, though, tales of future shocks seem like distant fantasies. OPEC remains a cartel held together by the loosest of links. Three months ago the group agreed to cut production by 7%, to 15.8 million bbl. a day, and prices later jumped by about $4, to more than $19...
Dedicated Rumormonger Jean-Noel Kapferer, 38, has heard those spurious stories and some 10,000 other tales. A Parisian academic, Kapferer, in 1984, created the Foundation for the Study of Rumors. His office, not far from the Paris Stock Exchange, runs a 24-hour hotline dedicated to collecting examples of...
Kapferer assumes that rumors, which he defines rather woodenly as nonofficial information circulating within a social group, are not just idle tales. Long-lived rumors of snakes or spiders coming out of clumps of bananas or children's teddy bears, he believes, probably have a strong xenophobic component -- fear of...
The trial, and its accompanying tales of death and torture, is the best thing to happen to Israelis and Jews worldwide this decade.