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...Barth the legend is a natural, the storyteller is dramatic hero weaving tales to stretch out her life. More and more in the last several years. Barth has come to identify the modern novelist's predicament with Scheherezade's--the teller of tales on the verge of extinction, forced to dazzling heights of ingenuity to trick out one more lifesaving fable. Barth has begun to conceive of the act of storytelling as one of the most fun damental of human actions, and there is a passage in Dinyazadiad where he dwells for some time on similarities between the rise...
...eclectic, and it had the fuzzy continuity of a fever dream-rather like the early Marx Brothers movies, or the last films of W.C. Fields. It also had a fine eye for the human cartoon. Allen, playing the master criminal of his youthful fantasies, stands by while a bank teller tries to decipher his scrawl: "I have a gub." The holdup man insists that the word is "gun"; the teller consults higher authorities, thereby spiking the heist. Even Allen's penmanship, it turns out, is masochistic. Occasionally there was a flat, tasteless line, but audiences howled, and the film...
...styles have certainly been healthy for purveyors of women's clothing. New York's Bonwit Teller ran a newspaper ad on March 1 featuring three bareback tops. "We sold 800 of them from that one ad," says Fashion Director Danny Zarem. Sellouts are also reported in Los Angeles, Paris and London...
...their devotion. One night, the Gutre daughter mutely offers herself to him. The following morning, after asking the student's blessing, the Gutres turn on him; they mock him, spit at him, and lead him to the yard outside, where they have erected a cross. The story ends. The teller of the Gospel, we understand, is to become the "hero" of his own story; the legend recurs, with each new telling...
...problem than anything else." Margaret Dadian, vice president for the Midwest's Kay Campbell's Shops, headquartered in Evanston, Ill., calls the problem "the biggest, fattest nuisance in the world; it gets me ready to explode." Says Helen Galland, vice president and general merchandise manager of Bonwit Teller in Manhattan: "We could run a button business on the side. The manufacturers have not yet perfected a method of keeping them...