These are beguiling tales built on secrets and sadness, each of them with a keen sense of place.
At first sight, pint-sized La Gomera – sitting prettily in an island chain renowned for its equable climate – might seem a strange location to have settled on for a tale built around tempest-lashed heroics.
The two-part program is, of course, an attempt to employ the same formula the network used last year in "The 60's" -- a fictional tale built around real events, with dashes of news clips from the period woven in.
On one level the novel is a literary detective story, with the reader as the sleuth — even, perhaps, as the true protagonist, who, thwarted in the desire for a tale built on cause and effect, must bushwhack through the text and muster a new way of reading.
This is an industry that still remembers the old MGM publicity department's way of cleaning up messes — just two years ago, "Hollywoodland," the film tale built around the death of George Reeves, portrayed the MGM publicity chief Howard Strickling as a powerful expert in damage control.
The tale builds on intricate symbolism stemming from obscure sources.
This subtly demonic tale builds to a shocking climax.
But the movement's narrative, built around tales of dented squash rotting in fields, distracts us from the data about the real sources of waste and how to address them.
By using the four narrative patterns in their tales, whistleblowers build legitimacy in the eyes of legislators, the public and the press.
"He liked to tell stories," said Mr. Hrones, contending that because Mr. Gerhartsreiter is under 5-foot-5, he concocted "tall tales" to build himself up.
