Word: fictional
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...film, fiction and the public fancy, New York City suffers an abysmal reputation as a nest of crime. A report issued last week by the U.S. Justice Department's Law Enforcement Assistance Administration shows that this unsavory reputation is not entirely deserved. Among the five largest U.S. cities, New York ranked last on a per-capita basis in the number of rape, assault or robbery victims...
...March issue of Harper's Garcia published an account of how the Chilean armed forces suppressed the Chilean government in the coup of September, 1973. As he traces the contacts between Chilean military officers and the Pentagon, it seems that Garcia is portraying the military men of his fiction all over again. These are the same men who shot three thousand people in Macondo's central square and carted them off in a freight train, and the next morning denied that the massacre had ever occurred. The politics of One Hundred Years of Solitude seem mythic, distanced from contemporary issues...
Emanuel Gold, formerly the film critic for The Boston Phoenix and the Boston Review of the Arts, is now the review editor for Fiction Magazine. He is also a student at the Harvard Medical School...
...certain aesthetic rules, but through which the component parts of reality are broken down and stylized. Thus, his audience recognizes familiar gestures, can feel itself in water, space density, surrounded by all the natural objects this human being on the state creates with the aid of silence and fiction. It is an art of illusion, but it does not permit any trickery. The gestures must be pure, true and comprehensible. The Greek dramatist Lucian wrote: "The mime who is guilty of a false gesture commits a solecism with the hand...
...case in support of the latest, though not the most fashionable "minority," Apostles of Light effectively makes its point: the very old are as invisible a group today as the blacks used to be. But Miss Douglas has composed far more than an old people's brief in fiction. A native Mississippian herself, Ellen Douglas has made her argument palpable in her milieu. The Southern-Gothic setting-decaying classical porticos plus mazes of wisteria and Confederate jasmine-closes around the reader and, like a perfect symbol, becomes the substance as well as the metaphor for the author...