Word: fictional
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...piece about Watergate literature, for instance, he speaks of "the firm jaw and the empty sentence. Any good comic writer can do you a Sam Ervin, but How ard Baker is a work of art." Examining the predicament of fiction writers in an age when all psychological twitches are resentlessly understood, he observes: "Since jealousy is now curable, like TB, we can't have people dying of it any more. A few rap sessions, some fearless touch ing, and a new sense of self-worth would have Othello and lago and Hamlet and Juliet back on their feet...
...acceded to the practical need for bestselling popularity with Couples and prepared to meet relevance. He did, in 1971, by slipping a black-power radical into the pages of Rabbit Redux. He was not alone. Saul Bellow and even the reticent Bernard Malamud felt compelled to explore in fiction their feelings about those other, threatening Americans...
...hope in the year 2000 women still wear clothes like this," says Actress Carol Lynley about her boudoir garb. Alas, they don't, at least in Lynley's latest film, The Shape of Things to Come, based on H.G. Wells' science-fiction thriller. When Lynley, 36, arrived on the set, she learned that her costume was to be "a unisex Mao outfit." Nevertheless, she was cheered by her role as Niki, ruler of a planet named Delta III. "I'm called 'Governor,' not 'Governess' of the planet," says Lynley matter-of-factly...
...Fiction has always made use of monumental festive gorgings to patch over any gaps in the plot. Chaucer sneaks them in in his prologue to the Canterbury Tales writing of a house where it "seemed to snow food and drink and every kind of delicacy one can think of." And in Dickens' Christmas Carol, the crusty Scrooge's transformation begins when he supplies a complete spread, including goose, for his new friend Tiny...
...fiction does not seem to be selling," he added. "Women authors really seem to be dominant right...