Word: fictional
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...weapons that may do the same thing. Jane's Yearbooks, London publisher of the authoritative guides to weapons systems, and the influential U.S. publication Aviation Week & Space Technology report that American and Russian scientists are stepping up efforts to develop weapons that until recently existed only in science fiction. They all depend on the laser, a device capable of generating a beam of light so powerful it can serve as a death...
...When Lee Randolph died, a suicide who had lingered on for weeks, I watched her face being covered by a sheet, and I was ridden by the event. But it was not at all like losing a character in fiction they become more "relevant" and, sometimes, realistic. Today it is common to see such queasy subjects as abortion, incest, drug addiction and venereal disease meshing with the old, familiar workings of unhappy families. This produces the kind of intense melodrama rarely seen in the evening. Currently, The Young and the Restless is helping a woman through a mastectomy with almost...
...FICTION 1 -Curtain, Christie (1 last week) 2 -Ragtime, Doctorow (2) 3-The Greek Treasure, Stone (3) 4-The Choirboys, Wambaugh (4) 5-In the Beginning, Potok (5) 6-Shogun, C/ave// (8) 7 -Humboldt's Gift, Be//ow (7) 8-The Eagle Has Landed, Higgins (10) 9 -Looking for Mr. Goodbar, Ressner (6) 10-Nightwork, Shaw (9) NONFICTION 1 -The Relaxation Response, Benson(2) 2 -Bring On the Empty Horses, Niven (1) 3-Angels, Graham (7) 4-Sylvia Porter's Money Book, Porter (3) 5-The People 's Almanac, Wallechinsky & Wallace (4) 6-The Ascent...
...have pained Joyce deeply. Despite his reputation as a writer of dirty books, he was remarkably prim in his speech and other correspondence. "Keep my letters to yourself, dear," he admonished Nora. "They were written for you." Yet because everything Joyce experienced found its way some how into his fiction, the exposure of his raw sexual fantasies is not the simple invasion of privacy it might seem. Joyce's life was a tug of war between schizoid contradictions. He fled Dublin but never wrote about anything else. He renounced Catholicism, then cast himself as a higher priest who would...
Morgan consorts with Henry Ford, Freud visits Coney Island, and turn-of-the-century America comes of age in this lilting syncopation of fiction and history...