Word: talese
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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The tales they tell are similar. Each speaks of an innocuous introduction, prolonged contact, and, in many cases surrender to addiction. Instead of frequent hallucinogenic highs, these people experience blips and flips--at the front of a video screen or pinball machine. Their downfall is not drugs or alcohol. It...
The author's own disbelief seems not to be wholly suspended in this drowsy, amiable thriller about the German Occupation of Britain's Channel Islands during World War II. The narrative is full of cinematic echoes. There is a real Field Marshal Erwin Rommel and a fake ("Heini Baum, Jewish...
All three films are tales of an innocent person drawn into a web of complicity and accused of murder. All three trade in multiple female identities and tease the viewer into hoping the heroine will take one more step in the dark. Now for the differences. Winter is a dud...
KEVIN AND NATE were asleep in the back of the van. Our driver, Head Moonie of the State of New Hampshire, was regaling Dave and me with bawdy tales of his geopolitical adventures with the Reverend Moon.
It is a double irony that Isak Dinesen, who hid behind pseudonyms and coveted the Nobel Prize, is currently better known for her life than for her art. For the film of Out of Africa was itself a masque. The romantic figure played by Meryl Streep was a woman of...