Word: fictional
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...FICTION 1-Trinity, Uris (1 last week) 2-Sleeping Murder, Christie (2) 3-Raise the Titanic!, Cussler (3) 4-Storm Warning, Higgins (4) 5-The Crash of '79, Erdmon (6) 6-Slapstick, Vonneguf (5) 7-The Users, Haber(7) 8-Ceremony of the Innocent, Caldwell (8) 9-Touch Not the Cat, Stewart (9) 10-Blue Skies, No Candy, Greene...
...Secretary's secret diplomacy and his secret-swinger life-style energized the Nixon years and turned them into the Kissinger era. To critics, such as a former Cabinet rival, "most of Kissinger's performance was theater and the rest was fiction." His "balance of power" approach has been attacked as reflecting a static view of the world that overemphasized superpower relationships and squandered American assets without deriving strategic benefits. New York Times Columnist Anthony Lewis has accused him of conducting foreign policy with "cynical brutality." Kissinger shrugs off attacks with a quip: "Even a paranoid can have enemies...
That lady nuzzling a serval is Actress Barbara Carrera, on location in the Virgin Islands for the filming of H.G. Wells' 1896 science-fiction chiller, The Island of Dr. Moreau. Carrera plays a prostitute shanghaied from Panama to Moreau's Pacific island for his grisly experiments in trans-species engineering. Michael York co-stars as a shipwrecked Englishman who also gets entangled in the mad scientist's endeavors. To provide raw materials for Vivisectionist Moreau (played by Burt Lancaster), the film makers imported a small-scale Noah's ark of creatures. So far, actors and animals...
...Brooks and starring Tuesday Weld and Diane Keaton. Sissy Spacek, Shelley Duvall and Janice Rule form the trio in Three Women, a film that Director Robert Altman says, somewhat obscurely, is based on one of his dreams. Equally mysterious, although for different reasons, is Demon Seed. In that science-fiction thriller Julie Christie is impregnated-don't ask how-by a computer...
...people who read paperback historicals and almost all the people who write them are female. Fawcett Books publishes 14 historical romancers, all women, whose books sold 6 million copies in 1976. Bantam's Barbara Cartland, 75, the grandma of the genre and a one-woman fiction factory who can dictate a 180-page book in seven days, has 212 titles to her credit. Last year she wrote 21 love stories of beribboned yore in which, as usual, all the heroines remained virgins...