Word: talese
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Jordan simply embellishes these tales. The boy described does meet the devil. Immediately the shrubbery at his feet begins to lengthen to encircle and entrap him. We may not know much about the personalities of the characters by the end of the movie, but we certainly know why the devil...
And a few Americans, inevitably, tell sad tales of money running out, no matter what the rate of exchange. Stephanie Marcus, 20, of Palo Alto, Calif., was sitting glumly in the waiting room of the Munich railroad station not long ago, pondering the fact that she had a plane ticket...
Those who pick up this allusion to fanciful old tales may move to the head of the class. Lodge sets his swelling cast of characters into frantic motion across what only looks like the contemporary world; in truth, they move through enchanted old paths out of Ariosto, Spenser and the...
But outside the Village, Paley has an entirely different reputation. Her first book of short stories, The Little Disturbances of Man (1959), was lavishly praised by critics and by colleagues as disparate as Philip Roth, Donald Barthelme and Susan Sontag--but not for the book's political messages. In fact...
And there is more to this movie, the work of young barely knowns, than audiences may bargain for in a time when adolescent frenzy is often mistaken for comedy. One guesses that Screenwriter Barish or Director Seidelman was raised in Roberta's world, escaped to Susan's funk scene in...