Word: talese
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Not for nothing are Lauder's curtains copied from the Schonbrunn Palace. In the past, according to Israel, she has beguiled the press with tales of a gently bred Hungarian-Viennese mother, a Czech father with imperial connections, a childhood spent on an estate in Flushing, N.Y. Now she tells...
Besides swapping tales from the office, the revelers, numbering roughly the same as in five past fairs, consumed 1200 cups of cider, 12 trays of brownies, 70 dozen cookies and 300 donuts, said Food Services Supervisor Andrea K. Swift.
I N THE REALM OF historical fiction, few novels could be closer to fiction than James A. Michener's Texas This new novel by an author known for his site-specific tales, is little more than a Texas sized data base with a soap opera fairy tale grafted on.
When he told the tale of his year of graveyard shifts in Midnights, he delivered a fascinating collection of true but unbelievable tales: your basic Yalie-turned-officer-of-the-peace stuff. The particular charm of the book was not only its simple and personal prose but the cultural clash...
In Midnights Wilkinson was a self-conscious visitor, living life on the edge, discovering the seamy underside of Wellfleet. And while the little town was hardly bristling with sordid tales, the book is a fascinating study.