Word: tales
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...selling confidence, will be sure to keep everybody posted as the numbers and the reports come in. We may be due for a recession - heck, we may already be in one, and not recognize it yet. And what consumers do from here on out may tell the tale...
...Take the Cuban missile crisis of 1962. Since we are all still here to savor this accurate reconstruction of those anguished days, we know everything came out all right in the end. But seen through the eyes of presidential aide Kenny O'Donnell (Costner), it is still a suspenseful tale. Well acted too, especially by Costner, and Greenwood as John F. Kennedy. The players don't particularly look like their historical models, but they make us feel their life-threatening pain and puzzlement...
...Nino Milagro, "the miracle child." He was plucked from the waters, like Moses from the bulrushes, by a fisherman. He became known to us by one name. To have any greater religious overtones, the tale would have to involve visits from the Virgin Mary--which some said it did. And the standoff over what to do with Elian (now 7) after the November 1999 Cuban-refugee-boat sinking that killed his mother, was as intractable as a religious schism. To his father Juan Miguel, in Cuba, the Miami relatives who took Elian in were kidnappers, buying the boy's love...
...particularly eerie part is the verse in which the sap at the center of Jones' tale tells how he turns on his friend and kills him. It's a spookily similar situation to the one I described a couple of columns back, when George, during one his lowest moments in the '70s, shot at his buddy Earl "Peanut" Montgomery. Only difference: George missed...
...NOTHING LIKE IT IN THE WORLD Veteran historian Stephen Ambrose writes at full throttle about the construction of the transcontinental railroad during the 1860s. This magnificent tale of high finance, low finagling and workers hacking through 2,000 miles is magnificently told...