Word: fictional
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...conflicts over the centuries. In the accepted framework of British politics, Heath had no choice but to accept his sovereign's verdict. The Queen, for her part, could not have spoken out publicly; she would have seemed to be usurping the power of Parliament. There is a built-in fiction to the British system: namely, the Cabinet is no more than the servant of the Crown. The reverse is closer to the truth...
...teen-age girl is raped in the shower of a detention home by four other female inmates wielding a "plumber's helper." A nine-year-old girl is raped with a beer bottle by four youngsters on a San Francisco beach. The first rape is pure fiction, a scene from NBC'S 1974 two-hour made-for-TV movie Born Innocent. The second is a grotesque real-life replay of the TV scene, performed by three girls, 11, 14 and 15, with a boy, 15, standing watch. According to a police investigator, one of the assailants admitted having...
...historic accumulation of fiction and fantasy has always confounded the analytic powers. Consider James Agee. The presence of a handful of tenant farmers moved him to an epic work of genius; yet, in Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, it is easier to locate Agee than the not quite so exciting reality of rural Alabama...
...obsessed producer of fiction. At one point he set himself a quota of 1,200,000 words a year, 365 days a year (days off had to be made up). He flailed away with two-finger typing until he discovered dictation. Thereafter he kept several secretaries, including three sisters named Walter, frantically busy. He thought of his mysteries as sets of components, so he rigged up a gizmo called a "plot wheel," a device with spokes radiating from the center indicating characters, situations, complications. He spun his wheel until there were points where spokes collided. Presto: another book...
...FICTION: The World According to Garp, John Irving ∙ Final Payments, Mary Gordon ∙ The Human Factor, Graham Greene ∙ Another I, Another You, Richard Schickel Kalki, Gore Vidal