Word: fictional
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...seven stories) building, and an eye-opener last year about how Soviet oil drillers were operating off Hither Hills State Park with an oil rig disguised as a fishing trawler. Both the stories sent reporters from national news organizations scrambling to investigate. "I believe the line between reality and fiction is obvious," says Rattiner. "If I fail in making it so, it is my fault. But it certainly gets everyone talking about the paper...
...Gestapo, French Essayist and Novelist Jean Raspail has concocted a reasonable facsimile. The Camp of the Saints shrewdly exploits a dilemma that the world may well face: the moment when the burgeoning Third World rises from misery and forces the West to share more of its resources. Apocalyptic fiction could come from this chilling premise, but Raspail, 50, is willing to settle for a harangue...
MIDGE DECTER herself gives the best name for her attempt to explore the generation gap of the 60s. Her "essay in fictionalized sociology" lies somewhere in a hazy limbo between bad sociology and mediocre fiction...
DECTER might have been more convincing had she relied purely on fiction. Much of the best literature has elements of sociology implicit in it. But if readers are to draw parallels between characters and themselves, there must be some way to identify with the characters. The characters in Radical Children never attain the depth necessary for such identification, for the prefatory letter clearly distinguishes between the reader and the read--and anyhow who is willing to identify with a character named "the girl" who has been labelled "The Pothead...
Baked Potato. Made on a shoestring budget that does not seem to have caused anyone much difficulty, Death Race 2000 is a jaunty, funny, bemusedly tense little action picture. It was obviously intended to scoop Rollerball, a more costly and similar science-fiction enterprise (TIME, July 7) and it commits its petty larceny briskly and efficiently, with none of Rollerball's thundering pretension. David Carradine, late of TV's Kung Fu, appears as the champion racer Frankenstein. Various parts of his body have been smashed, burned or discarded during his racing career, and he now appears...