Word: fictional
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...FICTION 1. Myra Breckinridge, Vidal (1 last week...
...picture through a series of embarrassing lapses in logic, some third-rate color photography, and sets worthy of the more outlandish oriental monster movies. Viewed with tolerance, and press passes, Planet of the Apes can be appreciated alternately as low comedy, high adventure and, at moments, serious science fiction. In other words...
...said his main reason for writing The Double Helix was to interest young people in science. "When I was young I much preferred to read fiction," he said, "So I decided to make The Double Helix read like fiction...
...FICTION...
...ended with Clea in 1960, a neurotic, solid-gold heiress with the heart of a prostitute streaks naked into her empty ballroom and shatters its mirrored walls with a repeating shotgun. This preposterous act suggests the syndrome of identity crisis and symbolic suicide encountered only too frequently in contemporary fiction. Mirrors and prisms are novelists' standard metaphors, and Durrell has always used them well. He does so again in this devilishly clever metaphysical mystery tale. But new times demand new metaphors; except for that brief, noisy episode in the ballroom, Tune is governed by a quavering image...