Word: tales
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Whether cover exposure will affect a candidacy this election year is not our concern. Just as in Hoover's day, the important thing is to have the right story, and a good one. This week's tale of how Dukakis has virtually sewn up the Democratic nomination makes us comfortable on both counts...
...edged hallucinations, of improbable scenes so vivid that they enter the subconscious without checking in first at the front desk of reason. Reading him seems like dreaming, and interpretations of meaning tend to be resented as invasions of privacy. So it is here. There is an old-fashioned adventure tale going on, along with a peculiar love story, a mythic quest, a laborious fertility rite and a perilous journey of psychological discovery. And that is only for openers...
...draw most of the characters he invented, or even to duplicate his trademark signature for autograph seekers, he was a one- man show. As corporate legend has it, Disney dictated the entire narrative of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) from memory as his animators scribbled the tale onto storyboards. When Disney died in 1966, the company went into virtual suspended animation. Disney's last big hit of that era was 1969's The Love Bug, about a Volkswagen named Herbie...
...Sarah Lawrence's Krupat starts his American Lit students with parallel readings in Genesis and Iroquois creation stories (which he sees as part of a neglected oral literary tradition). He dropped selections from William Faulkner in favor of Michael Gold's Jews Without Money, a tale of turn-of-the- century Manhattan...
...years ago last week that the Tibetan uprising against China's occupying forces propelled the Dalai Lama into Indian exile. Yet the spirit of his ancient, fairy-tale theocracy is still very much alive in Dharmsala, a former British hill station 250 miles north of New Delhi. Here, attended by a State Oracle, a rainmaking lama, various medicine men, astrologers and a four- man Cabinet, the Dalai Lama, 52, incarnates all the beliefs and hopes of his imperiled homeland, much as he has done since first ascending the Lion Throne in Lhasa at age four...