It may be tempting to say bad things about people behind their back––many people love to hear bad tales.
Too bad: the tale needs to be told as fully as is possible.
" 'Anna Nicole' is a parable," Ms. Padmore continued, "a bad fairy tale about a character so larger than life she becomes surreal.
The good news, bad news tale from Des Moines is hardly unusual.
While the judgment about a good or bad fairy tale is not one I'd usually think of on my own, Bruno Bettelheim's book The Uses of Enchantment goes a long way to teach us that a "good" fairy tale takes the overwhelming feelings of a growing child and gives them not only some order but real hope.
There are no clear heroes and too many villains, no good-guy-v-bad-guy tale to spin.
The BIS reckons central banks need not worry about doing more to support growth, since monetary policy is not particularly effective now anyway and deflation isn't actually as bad as tales from the Depression would lead one to believe.
Nuances of faith, politics and sexual identity enrich what initially presents as a classic good son-bad son tale, and although the film's melting-pot patois is occasionally too dense to decipher, we get the gist.
The entertainment industry is also full of stories of bad behavior, tales which are often recounted by a variety of my friends after a glass or two of wine.
Screenwriter David Ayer updated the classic noir bad-cop tale, typified by Shield for Murder (1954) and Rogue Cop (1954), with his scripts for Training Day (2001) and, adapting a story by James Ellroy, Dark Blue (2002); he later wrote and directed the even darker Harsh Times (2006).
