Word: talese
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Stockman tells some appalling tales about the haphazard way the actual Reagan economic program of 1981 was shaped. On one occasion, he and Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger casually agreed to split the difference between various military-spending proposals and came up with a figure of 7% real growth in...
Along time ago, in a conference room far, far away . . . it was ordained that sword-and-sorcery movies would be the Next Big Thing. Just imagine crossing the fantasy worlds of J.R.R. Tolkien and George Lucas! Mythic reverberations! Megabucks! Didn't work. The crossbreeding produced curious offspring: the low- birth...
After reading your April 18 article, "Two Tales of the Harvard Patriarchy and its Exploits: The Wellesley Tradition," I find myself in the position of defending Wellesley and its students against the fallacies represented in your newspaper.
As the title implies, this movie is a generic myth constructed from a whole slew of great tales of yesterday, you, far away and thither. Playing on an anticipation of the viewer's weak memory, Legend offers us a couple of migrant dwarves straight from Middle Earth, a little-used...
At its center is a genial gent named Harry Joy (Barry Otto), who loves his family, his ad-agency job, and the art of storytelling. After spinning one of his tales, Harry suffers a massive heart attack. For four minutes his soul leaves his body, and when it returns, the...