Word: fictionalization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...called a novel of bad manners, Begley again demonstrates that he can reveal the complexities of society and personality with a clear eye and graceful style. Schmidt may not live up to today's strict standards of political correctness, but he more than meets the requirements of convincing fiction...
...movie set in recent decades is to run a reality check on the cast and crew. Are they wearing the accurately awful frocks? Any anachronistic dialogue? In this game of dueling memories we may be no closer to the truth than the filmmakers, but hey, we were there. Any fiction movie becomes, in our eyes, a failed documentary...
...trip to Mars. A station staffed by volunteer scientists would certainly have before it a lifetime of exploration and investigation not limited by a short layover. Resupplied periodically by unmanned rockets from Earth, the station would flourish and eventually grow to become the Earth colony on Mars--science fiction materialized as science fact. If one considers the major risks and astronomical expense of a return trip, not to mention the limited benefit of a short visit, a permanent stay on Mars is not so radical an idea. ALLAN I. PRESSER Fort Lyon, Colorado...
...movie set in recent decades is to run a reality check on the cast and crew. Are they wearing the accurately awful frocks? Any anachronistic dialogue? In this game of dueling memories we may be no closer to the truth than the filmmakers, but hey, we were there. Any fiction movie becomes, in our eyes, a failed documentary. In Allison Anders" Grace of My Heart, there's little doubt that the tale of Denise Waverly (Ileana Douglas), who in the early '60s marries a young lyricist (Eric Stoltz) and with him writes a lot of Top 10 hits, is based...
...Desperation (Viking; 688 pages; $27.95). The other is The Regulators, written under King's occasional nom de plume, Richard Bachman (Dutton; 475 pages; $24.95). Along with The Green Mile's 592 pages, this means King will have graced his fans with a total of 1,755 pages of fiction in less than 12 months. By way of comparison, you can get a standard-size, paperback King James Version of the Bible that tallies only 1,112 pages--a pretty slack job considering the Bible's authors had a number of centuries in which to crank it out (although in fairness...