Word: fabulists
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wave of that peculiarly English art movement, Pre-Raphaelitism. The man who defined the ideals of pictorial sentiment for an exceedingly pious age; whose angels and Blessed Damozels, Arthurian knights and shrinking, somewhat cataleptic virgins were the very essence of escapist painting. What could this industrious and backward-dreaming fabulist have to say to the 20th century...
...serial plagiarist is a familiar journalistic type, but the serial fabulist is rare. Glass concocted story after story and slipped them all past his editors and fact checkers, often buttressing his claims with forged notes and interview transcripts and other bogus documents. His work was challenged from time to time--a March 1997 account of a cocaine-fueled orgy at a young-conservatives conference was hooted at loudly--but his career sailed on, with free-lance contracts from a fistful of magazines...
Well, not quite everybody. For a viewer sympathetic to Schwarzenegger's and Cameron's best selves -- the ironist with muscles and the mordant fabulist -- True Lies is a loud misfire. It rarely brings its potent themes to life. And it seems not to realize that Harry is less a hero than a wife-abusing goon...
Roiling these backwaters are two powerful, charismatic figures, Raphael Hunter, an outright scoundrel, and Albion Pugh, who is more of a chronic liar and gifted fabulist. Both men are effortlessly successful with women: Ramsay loses his wife to Hunter and a beloved cousin to Pugh. He envies Pugh's "capacity to mythologise existence . . . his charm and his whatever it was he had instead of genius...
KURT VONNEGUT'S MONKEY HOUSE (Showtime, May 15 and 20). Three adaptations of short stories by the sci-fi fabulist. Hardly first-rate Vonnegut (more like second-rate Rod Serling), but more fun than most anything else on TV this month...