Jack went into production at a time when fairy tale movies seemed to be the next big thing.
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The novel demands to be read like this, as a fable, for while it roots around in the stench and swill of life, it is at the same time a highly figurative tale about truth versus fact, about meaning, and the power of language both to carry and destroy it.
At the time, Rashomon, the tale of a violent act refracted through the conflicting testimony of four witnesses, was a significant act of diplomacy.
Made in Hollywood noir style, it was a tale of a small time gambler who moves to a big time syndicate controlled by a mysterious boss.
Broadcast networks and many newspapers had little time or space for covering a gripping tale in the Caucasus.
So the next time the media sees such a fairy tale story, are they going do any background checks?
Once upon a time, little girls were sold a tale of happily ever afters, tiny waistlines and idealized femininity that does not exist in reality.
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The meaning of the holiday changed over time, becoming a David versus Goliath tale among Mexican immigrants in the 1930s and embodying U.S.-Mexico unity during World War II and Chicano Power in the 1960s and 1970s, Hayes-Bautista said.
As explained in this New York Times article, mistakes imprint longer and in more detail as perhaps a cautionary tale of what to avoid next time.
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For Mr Bush's critics, both Republicans and Democrats, this tale reinforces two conclusions they drew some time ago.
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Returning to the witness box for a second time, Vicky Pryce told the new jury the same tale - and emphasised the impact that Huhne's affair had on their family.
Otherwise, the emerging narrative of a down-to-earth man, thrust into power but mostly indifferent to the trappings of his position, driven by a special concern for the poor has proved especially encouraging to many frazzled Catholics, especially as, in a cynical time, it just may turn out to be the tale closest to the truth.
So next time you're introduced to a boss in a good tale, watch out.
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But the ancient hunter-gatherer - whose sex is unclear - survived to tell the tale: the injury was completely healed by the time of the person's death.
It is time to rescue the figure of Jesus from the cradle of the fairy tale world of Santa.
Now we can afford a fairy-tale getaway that we'd only dreamed of once upon a time.
Or what about that time Oprah applauded up-and-coming writer James Frey for his harrowing tale of overcoming addiction?
The decline of MySpace is a tale with echoes of the ill-fated pact AOL made with Time Warner: A high-flying Internet venture gets caught in a culture clash precipitated by joining a big media conglomerate.
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Decision time is now for Justin Bieber: He can be a Timberlake or a cautionary tale that parents tell their kids who want to go into show business.
But there are fears that this time, at the Beijing edition of the Olympic story, there might not be a fairy tale ending for the team in gold and green.
It looks great, it has surprising emotional depth, and the characters all get their time to shine but perhaps none shine as brightly as Gingerbread Man, whose Christmas tale is laugh-out-loud funny and steals the show.
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Next, a company that makes an annual appearance on game day, but this time that gets my vote for its happily unexpected take on the topic: the charming Budweiser tale of the little Clydesdale that grew up and succeeded in life.
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Instead of scientists' re-creating the world of dinosaurs as in Jurassic Park, this tale's mad scientist and colleagues invent technology to transport people to other periods of time.
Screen International praised the film for being "both breezy and weighty at the same time", though Variety's critic felt it reduced "an immensely disturbing... tale to a series of cartoonish vignettes".
At the bottom of the pile there is the sad tale of Palm -- the hottest tech company on the planet for far too brief a time.
The trio proved to be box-office gold: They were two of the highest-grossing films of their time, winning a slew of awards -- including a best picture Oscar for the latter, a tale of con men in 1930s Chicago.
Yousef escaped at the time, but agents caught his right-hand man, Abdul Hakim Murad, who told them a chilling tale.
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And yet at this time he recorded perhaps his greatest song, 1980's "He Stopped Loving Her Today, " the tale of a man who continued pining for his lost love many years after she left him.
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