Word: tales
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Golenbock sees Personal Fouls as a quintessentially American tale of innocence, greed and power abuse. He offers two plans for revamping collegiate athletics--one cynical, one idealistic...
DESPITE the tragedies which pursue Jasmine--one character says to her, "you are a tornado. You're leaving a path of destruction behind you."--there is a lot of love and warmth coursing through this tale. As an undocumented au pair girl in New York, she adopts the name Jase and becomes part of her first American family--Wylie and Taylor and their daughter Duff...
...COCKTAIL HOUR. Nancy Marchand's sozzled, sardonic portrayal of a grande dame enriches A.R. Gurney's Wasp family tale at Washington's Kennedy Center...
...waned, much like the first time around. It was mostly a convenience for the media, a way to get a handle on an upstart pop phenomenon. For music, a fan remembered, all the festival symbolized was a washout. Lysergic mud and bad amplification. The rest was a fairy tale...
...narrator of the novel, which includes a fatal deer-hunting accident and Wade's role in two murders, one the bludgeoning death of his father. Rolfe is a teacher who is up on modern literary devices. Ambiguity and a tendency to make the teller as important as the tale are conspicuous elements of his account. Rolfe's self-consciousness can be intrusive, though not nearly so much as his need to be the village explainer. Seemingly unsatisfied with his powers of observation and ability to convey male emotions, he reaches for generalizations from sociology and psychology...