Word: yarns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...easy as whittling. Cable Hogue shows a new side of Peckinpah. It is not so melancholy as Ride the High Country or so raw and violent as The Wild Bunch. It is quiet, lyrical, bawdy, funny and sad in almost equal portions, exactly as a good back-room yarn should...
...further hots up his tale with pirates, witches and a plantation owner's daughter-an 18th century Lolita, the young bitch-heroine to end all bitch-heroines. But like painted scenery, Maclnnes' skillfully assumed style devitalizes what it copies. It inhibits Westward to Laughter as Rattling Good Yarn while blunting it as Savage Satire...
Depression-depressed. Turned down by the San Francisco Opera, Floyd's revised version of Of Mice and Men is already scheduled for fall production by the bustling young Kansas City Lyric Theater. In the meanwhile, Seattle operagoers greeted the dramatic yarn of George and Lennie with tense attention. At opera's end, Lennie and George are crouched in the same cornfield. In a final gesture of love, George shoots Lennie to save him from the lynchers, and the curtain falls after the final pistol shot...
...searcher and an optimist. His problem: where to roost? The Jewish life of his Chicago boyhood? Wonderful! A spell as a thief? Why not? The university? That too. The book ricochets about the Chicago of Bellow's own young manhood; but if the author has a wild yarn to tell about a madman in a lifeboat, he ships Augie out on a tanker; if Mexico appeals to author or hero, off they both...
Other works are simpler. Weaver Urban Jupena created a platform covered with a shaggy rug on which conversationalists can sprawl out and playfully tug at the yarn while talking-an idea that can easily be adapted to the home. Apartment dwellers who have always wondered what to do with their skylight may take a lesson from Irv Teibel, a sound engineer. On four platforms beneath the museum's skylights, the contemplator lies back, while sounds of waves, distant bells, or birds singing come softly to his ears from recorded tapes...