Word: tales
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This is certainly an accurate assessment of tabloid television. But only a few weeks later, Newsweek forfeited its moral authority to denounce sensational journalism when its cover story featured "The Horrifying Steinberg Trial...a chilling tale of drug abuse, systematic beatings, and a life of squalor hidden behind a middle-class facade...
...entirely unfair. Most of her previous two dozen volumes of poems and fiction were freighted with allegorical misery: The Edible Woman feels herself cannibalized by family and friends; the paleontologist of Life Before Man views the people around her as potential fossils; in The Handmaid's Tale, a future America goes to hell when it is taken over by religious fundamentalists. But in Cat's Eye, Atwood jettisons her old techniques in favor of recognizable landscapes and more plausible griefs...
That afternoon, following an airport run to greet returning players, he meets with a distraught girl. Huddled in the Olds' front seat, she tells a sad tale. Her unstable mother has threatened her with a knife. She's afraid to go home, reluctant to call the police. A struggling student, she lacks money for needed books. And she'd like to play for Upward Bound, but fears the humiliation of failure...
...CHORUS OF DISAPPROVAL. Alan Ayckbourn, known as Britain's Neil Simon for his send-ups of suburbia, is at his shrewdest in this backstage tale of amateur theatricals, at Washington's Arena Stage...
...writers, she sacrifices balance for effects. This is acceptable, even necessary, in fiction. But in a memoir whose purpose is to expose one's own family in the glare of a social ideology, the practice seems simplistic and self-serving. There is, for example, her use of the familiar tale about the founding of the Bingham fortune. Grandfather Robert, "the Judge," bought into Louisville publishing with money from the estate of Mary Lily Flagler, his second wife. The Judge was rumored to have killed Mary Lily, but there was never any evidence that would support a criminal charge. Time...