Word: talese
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Even the judge was shocked. After listening to hours of testimony about a multimillion-dollar drug-distribution network involving hired killers with a penchant for chain saws, U.S. District Judge Milton Pollack marveled that such iniquities "could be so coldbloodedly related." Yet the tales so coolly told in court helped...
The exhibition consists of 110 works, from Copley's youth to Winslow Homer's age. They were chosen by a committee headed by Boston Art Historian Theodore E. Stebbins Jr., with assistance from the Louvre's chief curator of paintings Pierre Rosenberg. There are some unavoidable absences...
This has less to do with running time than with economy of narrative. When the eye, mind and heart are engaged by artful storytellers, questions of duration become irrelevant. One enduring Hollywood epic, D.W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation, ran for more than 2½ hours in...
Hollywood may try to change his mind. Starting with Brian De Palma's Carrie in 1976, each movie version has turned a profit (The Dead Zone has grossed $20 million since its late October release, while Christine has raked in a more modest $10 million). King's deftly...
Shiloh and Other Stories by Bobbie Ann Mason. Times are changing in western Kentucky, the setting for these tales of restless wives, footloose truckers and feisty senior citizens.