Word: fictional
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...biggest picture to play a Broadway theater-ever," says a spokesman for Loews, the conglomerate that operates one of the nation's largest movie chains. That kind of talk about the science-fiction movie Star Wars finds avid listeners among investors and stockbrokers disgusted by the aimless zigs and zags of a dispirited market. The price of shares in 20th Century-Fox, the maker of Star Wars, has more than doubled since the film opened in 32 theaters four weeks ago, leading a boom in movie and entertainment stocks generally. MGM has roared from $16 to $24.25 this year...
...record state that I am a science fiction junkie. If Star Wars [May 30] is at least half the movie your article claims it to be, I will be found in the local moviehouse for the next three months straight...
Your quotation of my comments about George Lucas' film Star Wars makes it appear that I liked the film. I most emphatically did not. Those of us who work in the science fiction field professionally look for something more than Saturday afternoon shoot-'em-ups when we go to a science fiction film. We have been disappointed many times, but I had expected more of Lucas. Somebody Up There likes the film, it seems, and no dissenting views are allowed...
...might tell something worth hearing about a chess genius who mysteriously elected to spend twelve years playing inferior opponents while anonymously stuffed in an airless, sweltering box. Gavin asserts that such a document did exist and that Kingkill is based on it. With this single shading of fact into fiction, the performance begins...
...Naipaul's fiction, the landscape, mental as well as actual, has grown ever more terrifying. By contrast, he approaches India with a calm, almost religious detachment. The narrative is often mordant as it describes the dissonance of Indian life: the mutilated beggar children and the fashionable holy men, complete with pressagents; the landless peasants fleeing the villages for the city pavements, the infuriating smugness of the privileged...