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tale
tale a tale never loses in the telling proverbial saying, mid 16th century, implying that a story is often exaggerated when it is repeated.a tale of a tub an apocryphal story; mid 16th century. The phrase was used as the title of a comedy (1633) by Ben Jonson, and then in 1696 (published 1704) as... Read more |
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temple
Temple, family name of characters in the Leather‐Stocking Tales and other novels of Cooper.... Read more |
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The Tale of Gamelyn
Gamelyn, The Tale of, a verse romance of the mid-14th cent. from the East Midlands, in 902 lines of long couplets. It is found in a number of manuscripts of The Canterbury Tales, usually assigned to the Cook, and Chaucer possibly intended to write a version of it for use as the Cook's tale.The... Read more |
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George A. Romero
ROMERO, George A. Nationality:American. Born:The Bronx, New York, February 4, 1940. Education:Studied art, design, and theater at Carnegie-Mellon Institute, Pittsburgh. Career:Maker of short 8mm films, from 1954; actor/director in Pittsburgh, 1960s;... Read more |
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Canterbury Tales
Canterbury Tales Late 14th‐cent. unfinished masterpiece by Chaucer. The General Prologue presents portraits of diverse pilgrims congregated at the Tabard inn (Southwark), including a battle‐worn Knight, sweetly pretentious Prioress, and emaciated scholar‐Clerk. They lighten the... Read more |
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Firebird
FIREBIRD The Firebird (Zhar–ptitsa ) is one of the most colorful legendary animal figures of Russian magical tales (fairy tales). With golden feathers and eyes like crystals, she is a powerful source of light, and even one of her feathers can illuminate a whole room. Sometimes she functions... Read more |
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Land of Cockaigne
Land of Cockaigne , legendary country described in medieval tales, where delicacies of food and drink were to be had for the taking. The Land of Cockaygne is a 13th-century English poem satirizing monastic life.... Read more |
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De Niro, Robert
...Hunter (1978). He finally won an Oscar for best actor in Raging Bull (1981). He made his directorial debut with A Bronx Tale (1993). Other films include Goodfellas (1990), Heat (1995), and Jackie Brown (1997). |
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Doctorow, E(dgar) L(awrence)
...20th‐century America that fuses tales of fictional characters and such real...novel with World's Fair (1985), a tale of a Bronx boy growing to some maturity, and Billy Bathgate (1989), about another Bronx boy of the 1930s but one who drifts into... |
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Weidman, Jerome
...The Price Is Right (1949), about a ruthless businessman; Your Daughter Iris (1955), an epistolary tale of a young woman from the Bronx living in England; The Enemy Camp (1958), about a Jew's ambivalent attitudes toward Christian society... |
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Odets, Clifford
...born in Philadelphia and reared in the Bronx, quit school at 15 to become an actor...Rocket to the Moon (1938), portraying a Bronx dentist who attempts to find happiness in a...Peach (1954), a retelling of the Noah tale. |
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Delillo, Don
Delillo, Don (1936– ), American novelist, born in the Bronx, New York, and educated at Fordham University. Like Pynchon...shaping the American psyche. Both Mao II (1991), a postmodern tale of celebrity, terrorism, and the behaviour of crowds, and... |
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Peter Pan
Peter Pan (1905). James M. Barrie's whimsical tale of a boy who refuses to grow up and who takes other children to...was known for her brassy, confident lyrics. Born in the Bronx and educated at Queens College, Leigh wrote for radio and... |
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A Bronx Tale: Will Eisner's 'Dropsie Avenue'
...Forward 05-05-1995 A Bronx Tale: Will Eisner's `Dropsie...the history of an imaginary Bronx neighborhood located somewhere in what is now the South Bronx. "Neighborhoods have life...novel "A Life Force" and the Bronx is a frequent setting ... |
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THEATER REVIEW; A well-told `Bronx Tale'; Chazz Palminteri revives his...
...shadowboxes childhood ghosts in "A Bronx Tale," his hoary autobiographical one...that Sonny has a lot more to say in "Bronx Tale." Yet for all his acting skills...reliving events of four decades ago in "Bronx Tale" (which ... |
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`Bronx Tale' a triumph for director De Niro
...at the Boston Film Festival.) A BRONX TALE Directed by: Robert De Niro Screenplay...De Niro could act. Now, with "A Bronx Tale," we know he can direct, too...in, say, "Golden Boy." But "A Bronx Tale" is smarter than that. ... |
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Cheers all around for `Bronx Tale'.(Arts and Lifestyle)(Theater review)
Byline: JENNA SCHERER "A BRONX TALE" At the Colonial Theatre, Wednesday...black shoes, everything about "A Bronx Tale" is old-school. Now at the...Over Broadway," first debuted "A Bronx Tale" in 1989, zeitgeists both ... |
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Chazz Palminteri returns to A.C. with 'A Bronx Tale'
"A Bronx Tale" is a one-man show about a young man's dealings with...narrator's own staid father. It takes place in the Bronx in the 1960s. Starring Chazz Palminteri, "A Bronx Tale" runs through July 29 at Caesars Atlantic City... |
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'A Bronx Tale' is Worth The Money
...Sentinel 11-03-1993 FILM REVIEW: 'A Bronx Tale' is Worth The Money.Reviewed By Martin Evans"A Bronx Tale" is the latest addition to a long...man's association with the mafia, "A Bronx Tale" is a coming of age story. "A ... |
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'A Bronx Tale' embraces stereotypes of Italian Americans
...show like Chazz Palminteri's "A Bronx Tale" take center stage at the Ford Center...Originally a one-act play, "A Bronx Tale" is now a rehash of Palminteri...of a Nation" did to blacks, "A Bronx Tale" promotes ideas that ... |
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'Bronx' on downtown B'way train.(Chazz Palminteri brings the play "A Bronx...
Chazz Palminteri will bring "A Bronx Tale," the one-man show that inspired...autobiographical tale about growing up in the Bronx. New staging is produced by Go Prods...Lerner. Palminteri first performed "Bronx Tale" in small ... |
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'A Bronx Tale': One Man and His Borough
...hands do so much nimble work in "A Bronx Tale," they deserve their own dressing...wrote inspired by memories of his Bronx childhood and adolescence. Produced off- Broadway in 1989, "A Bronx Tale" formed the basis for the 1993... |
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De Niro sparked Palminteri's 'Bronx Tale'
...wrote the story of his life, "A Bronx Tale." The play became the hit of Los...Tell me about the evolution of "A Bronx Tale." "I was a 9-year-old...movie." How true to life is "A Bronx Tale"? "I would say it's about... |
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