Word: tale
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Antonelli's has all the elements of a 1940s film-noir tale: vampy dames, a seedy speakeasy, and a host of slick mobsters and other sundry paisans. The story centers around lounge singer Barbara Goldman (Jessica Kirshner '01), who is kind of blue that her FBI agent boyfriend Charles Redmond (Nick Adams '03) spends more time at the office tracking down mobsters than he does with her. When she's offered a cushy job performing at the mob-run restaurant Antonelli's, the feisty "Bar" takes the offer in hopes that her inside scoop on The Family will help...
...response to a question posed by Professor of German Maria M. Tatar about Sendak's favorite book, the author cited Shakespeare's play, "A Winter's Tale...
...Boston Ballet's production of Cleopatra-with lush costumes, breathtaking scenery and evocative, lyrical dancing-rightfully puts the Bangels to shame, and offers a refreshingly beautiful take on a classic tale...
Seven years after Booker Prize-winning Michael Ondaatje won nearly universal acclaim for The English Patient, he returns to the literary world with Anil's Ghost-a tale that verges on the same dark terrain: war. Waiting years for him to publish again, one could not imagine where on the globe Ondaatje would choose to place his pen next. The Sri Lankan-born author (transplanted to Canada) who has written evocative pieces set in the old West, the early jazz era and World War II, chooses a different time and place for this story: the Sri Lanka of the present...
...have another question for you. Have you read Shakespeare's Winter's Tale? Is it worth the time...