Word: fictional
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...result of a request submitted under the Freedom of Information Act by Morton Halperin, a former National Security Council aide who now heads a Washington project concerned with civil liberties. The FBI insisted on deleting all names and summarizing the reports, which, after all, may be more fiction than fact. The files perhaps tell more about Hoover than anyone else...
...authors really are part of a movement which is no fiction. William Shurcliff, a research associate in physics here, used to know about every solar-heated house in America, but in the past year so many have been built that he has given up keeping track of them all. And Cole thinks that those who are not aesthetically attracted to the idea of building a house that uses its natural surroundings carefully will eventually become attracted to features like solar heating when the price of oil finally makes it worth their while to consider an alternative...
Creative people like artists, playwrights, novelists and writers in other forms of fiction were excluded in favor of bank presidents and politicians. But are they not also leaders in our society...
...coming out of the tube? That in real life, network executives tend to err on the side of timidity rather than on the side of even innovation, let alone the sort of madcap invention Chayefsky has them endorse here? That realism is fatal to the kind of social-science fiction he has written...
Sometimes it is necessary to put the mind in neutral and let it idle for a while. The uncampy sobriety with which these shows offer their childlike simplicities can be curiously refreshing, a time trip back to the simple pleasures of trash fiction for kids. Wonder Woman, which ABC so far runs as a recurring special rather than as a series, is a particularly satisfying show in which Lynda Carter plays a World War II female Superman, lap-dissolve costume changes and all. Nevertheless, after admiring Lynda's sexy little red, white and blue suit and her golden lasso...