Word: talese
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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The Playboy Channel, which airs daily from 8 p.m. to 6 a.m., E.S.T., is an expanded video version of Publisher Hugh Hefner's glossy magazine, minus the good writing. Ribald Classics presents softcore, soft-minded dramatizations of often less than classic tales in a visual style somewhat reminiscent of...
Everyone has heard endless clash-of-cultures tales involving summer folks who invade rural enclaves like Nantucket and Maine. Newly minted ruburbanites get to be treated like interlopers the whole year round. When one commuter stood waiting alone for the last morning train, a dog-walking native asked, "Train late...
OSHA. Candidate Reagan loved to regale audiences with tales of the agency's absurdities, such as its instructions on how to climb a ladder ("Begin by facing the ladder"). President Reagan has backed away from his goal of dismantling OSHA, but he has checked its zeal. "They've...
The most riveting parts of The Battle for the Falklands are the tales of pluck and heroism by British forces: a platoon sergeant who died attempting to silence an enemy machine-gun nest with hand grenades, a helicopter pilot who flew a solitary mission over Port Stanley, a wounded commando...
As for me, born in 1939, I too grew up on the war. The tales of my childhood were more often stories from the front than Grimm or Mother Goose. A disabled Marine told me that the Japanese had green blood-that's why they craved red American blood...