Word: fictional
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...element of the Kissinger act is to deflate formality. On President Nixon's trip to China, Kissinger brought on board the plane Vice Foreign Minister Chiao Kuan-hua. In the press section, Kissinger told his guest: "That's Jerry Schecter of TIME. He's my favorite fiction writer...
...Science fiction? Wood and his colleagues concede that scientists may never be able to find-or tame-mini-black holes. But they feel that the potential payoff surely justifies the attempt...
...fashioned with a wonderful skill and high humor. A translation of Dumas' story, even a fairly respectful one, it is simultaneously a satire, sometimes antic, sometimes serious, a send-up of the whole tradition of romantic fiction. Such an accomplishment seems paradoxical, but the movie successfully cuts both ways, largely because Richard Lester is a film maker who specializes in standing paradox...
...greater puzzle perhaps is what prompted such prodigious effort. In his bestseller Chariots of the Gods? (on which the movie is based), Science Fiction Writer Erich von Däniken says that the lines-which do, in fact, resemble airport runways-may have been landing strips for otherworldly visitors. A huge, cliffside trident, overlooking the nearby Bay of Pisco, may even have pointed the way to them, he says. But most scholars, including Reiche, flatly reject that farfetched idea; for one thing, no extraterrestrial artifacts have ever been found at the site. Scientific observers lean to a more down...
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