Word: tales
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Islamic art exhibit at the Sackler Museum opens the door to a fairy-tale world of noble kings, evil demons and enchanted forests. Paintings for Princes: The Art of the Book in Islam is an unusually vivid and fascinating exhibit...
Today's news, it is often said, is used to wrap tomorrow's garbage. But here is a tale with a different twist: an article that long ago ended up on the spike now makes a sidebar to the biggest story of our time...
VINELAND by Thomas Pynchon (Little, Brown; $19.95). In his first novel since Gravity's Rainbow (1973), a major writer turns his attention to all manner of American zaniness and produces a soaring, comic and visionary tale...
David R. Grosser of the Cambridge-El Salvadorsister city project described life under theCristiani regime as "a tale of almost constantharassment and infringement of human rights...
...Arutyunovs' tale is but one chapter in the harrowing chronicle that emerged from Baku last week. An Armenian resident told how a group of hooligans used crowbars to try to break down her sheet-metal door. When that tactic failed, they threatened to pour gasoline through the mail slot and set the place on fire. "I knew it was time to leave," said the woman between sobs. "I have nothing left now but my apartment keys...