Word: fictionalization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Museum's much awaited show at its main venue in Manhattan, "Abstraction in the Twentieth Century: Total Risk, Freedom, Discipline," is that its subject is far too big. The task that curator Mark Rosenthal has taken on is roughly comparable to doing an anthology of, say, European and American fiction since 1910 in 300 printed pages. However much you might wish it could be done, it can't. The field is too vast. You end up with a sample here, a masterpiece there, an overschematic story and an infinity of regrets about the omission of things that might or should...
...years have passed since the events it describes took place, Fuentes has outdone himself with this imaginative book. In describing his passionate infatuation with this enigmatic blond beauty, Fuentes has opened a great source of literary imagination and innovation. This novel, a somewhat shady mix between autobiographical narrative and fiction, abounds with passages rich in satirical portrayals and thought-provoking philosophies. The language in Fuentes' novel is something to be savored--whether he is discussing society, politics, or Diana herself, he leaves the reader enchanted by his supreme ability to convey his ideas with humor, grace and emotion...
...Cellar Door," a student magazine featuring "a mischievous miscellany" of fiction, essays, satire and poetry, will hit the news stands for the first time today...
...This is a miracle, an absolute bloody miracle," effuses Harvey Weinstein, co-chairman of Miramax Films. It was surely a godsend to the bustling, Disney-owned distributor, which had no big hit in 1995 to match such previous successes as The Piano, The Crow and Pulp Fiction. But if luck is the residue of design, the Postino nominations were the result of a savvy Miramax marketing campaign...
...Primary Colors, which this week tops the fiction list. In the continuing parlor game of who wrote it, Newsweek's Joe Klein is now so hot that his weekly oeuvre is getting deconstructed a la Jacques Derrida. Klein is a good guy, author (maybe), even though he doesn't bring a camera on trips--only dorks do that--but expects you to take his picture on a camel and get two-for-one prints made...