In the European imagination, Tibet and its capital, Lhasa, were a fantasy, a fabled paradise of spirituality locked away from the world.
Burlesque, that fabled if slightly soiled fantasy realm whose heraldic totem was the twirling pasty and whose undisputed queen was Gypsy Rose Lee, has returned to New York, dripping with rhinestones and trailing clouds of glitter.
With recreations of fabled historical events and fantasies about the past, his lively paintings, riddled with nostalgic themes, helped give his audience the fiction of a shared past, and through this presented the possibility of a united future.
A homey needlepoint embroidery on Mr. Gurney's encounter as a prep school student with the fabled American actress Katharine Cornell, this fantasy memoir allows the author's younger, provincial self a seductive first glimpse of a world where being merely life-size isn't enough.
MIDWAY through the fabled year 2001, the science fiction and fantasy genre is slipping into a mainstream niche by way of steamy "X-Files" finales and time-warped Hollywood blockbusters like "Planet of the Apes," "A.I.," and "Fellowship of the Rings," the first installment of J. R. R. Tolkien's "Lord of the Rings" trilogy.
This is a fantasy epic — the tale of a fabled Germanic kingdom that rose and fell during the Dark Ages — but with its convoluted prose, its trudging plot and its onslaught of unsurprising period detail, it's a perverted one.
Instead, Scorsese has gone all Harry Ponter-ish on us, creating an intricately designed and beautifully rendered story aimed squarely at that fabled (and commercially invaluable) point at which childlike fantasy intersects with adult yearning.
(Isherwood) 'The Landing' A three-part chamber musical, by Greg Pierce and the fabled composer John Kander, that brings to mind the shivery fantasy short stories of John Collier and Ray Bradbury.
The Copacabana, the Latin Quarter, El Morocco, the Stork Club, the Blue Angel and on and on: nowadays these fabled names tend to dissolve into a hazy, undifferentiated fantasy of glamour, cafe society and Manhattan nightlife before television arrived to change everything.
A cult director because of his association with fabled silent star Lon Chaney and his proclivity for outré fantasy and horror pictures, Browning made a handful of sound pictures as well as almost 40 silent movies.
