Word: talese
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Even as the tales of covert diplomacy continued to emanate from Washington, Tehran and elsewhere, the debilitating and indecisive six-year-old war between Iran and Iraq dragged on. Twice last week Iraqi warplanes struck deep into Iran, hitting first a petrochemical complex at the port of Bandar Khomeini and...
The newcomers have moved progressively further away from courtroom authenticity. People's Court remains the only show to feature real people arguing real lawsuits. On Divorce Court, the litigants are portrayed by actors, and the testimony, heavily spiced with tales of adultery and kinky sex, is scripted. The attorneys, however...
Not surprisingly, Levi the scientist is fascinated by work and variety, a curiosity he shares with Libertino Faussone, the main storyteller of The Monkey's Wrench. "The world is beautiful because it's all different," says ! Faussone, an itinerant rigger who has worked on construction jobs all over the world...
Indeed, there is more than enough gloom to go around these tales. Dubus, 50, has always written most effectively about loners and losers, people who, as the narrator of one story describes them, "move through life like scraps of paper in the wind." The tension in his stories springs from...
AS A CONVENTIONAL film-maker, Avildsen said he had no secret dreams waiting to burst onto the screen, no particular places to show or tales to tell. A good story and good characters, in the median sense of the word, is what he likes. His opinion of artsy films, such...