Leander bares tale of Hellespont swim in exclusive interview.
The New Yorker, September 5, 1925 P. 24 Leander bares tale of Hellespont swim in exclusive interview.
By Creighton Peet The New Yorker, September 5, 1925 P. 24 Leander bares tale of Hellespont swim in exclusive interview.
Handel's "Acis and Galatea" from 1718 gives the bare narrative of Ovid's tale and then sends us home happy and earlier than expected.
Yet she reins herself in: only Thinking 'Bout You, a scraped-bare everygirl tale of disconsolately hitting the booze and drugs, has her accelerating to full throttle.
"The String Theory Quartet," for all its ravishing tomfoolery, is really a fable, a stark morality tale, as blunt as a schoolmaster's paddle to the bare buttocks, and with that same afterglow.
It's a mindset laid bare on 'Fake Tales of San Francisco', in which Turner magnificently deflates the musical affectations of Strokes-lite wannabes with the crisp couplet: 'Let me tell you my problem, you're not from New York City, you're from Rotherham.' Elsewhere, there's an emphasis on adolescent concerns set to stunningly simple tunes.
The famous Hemingway short story of a gangland rub-out provides only the bare bones of this tale, which introduced Burt Lancaster to the screen as Swede, the doomed ex-boxer, and provided Ava Gardner with an unforgettable role as Kitty Collins, a siren who is truly a femme fatale.
SHE has nothing against polls, says Carroll Seron, a professor of legal sociology at the School of Public Affairs at Baruch College, except that they often tell a tale scrubbed bare of nuance.
