Word: fictionalization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...been planning to sell Innocent House, the Press' historic home, and his four reluctant partners come under close scrutiny. Frances Peverell, Gerard's discarded mistress and heir to the Peverell name, will permit the sale of the Press only over her dead body--or Gerard's. James deWitt, fiction editor, may be willing to help Frances. Claudia Etienne, Gerard's sister, needs money her brother controls to satisfy the "boy toy" she wants to marry. Gabriel Dauntsey, poet and poetry editor, faces eviction from his home of thirty years if Gerard lives. Other dubious characters include Esme Carling, a rejected...
Clare Sammells 95 speaks softly and carries a big stick. it is carved with suns and roses. As Co-chair of HRSFA (Harvard Radcliffe Science Fiction Association), she forcefully bangs it on the floor of the Sever room, bringing members out of the worlds of their animated conversations and into...reality? That remains to be seen...
HRSFA was originally founded as an umbrella organization for a number of SIGs. Eight years ago, an unwilling Dean vetoed the formation of a gaming club; and then of a comics club; a science-fiction association was okay, though, and came to embody all the fantasies that were not allowed in Harvard reality...
...really like (science fiction) as a genre," Sammells adds. "The appeal is that it puts you in a situation that you would never be in. And then you have to deal with it. The possibility of human reaction is limitless...
...simpleton bobs along through history, grabbed a near-record 13 Academy Award nominations, including best picture, best actor (Hanks), best director (Robert Zemeckis) and best supporting actor (Gary Sinise). The sweep was one shy of the record: 14 for "All About Eve" in 1950. The next-closest films -- "Pulp Fiction," "Bullets Over Broadway" and "The Shawshank Redemption" -- had seven nominations apiece. The other best picture nominees were "Pulp Fiction," "The Shawshank Redemption," "The Quiz Show" and "Four Weddings and a Funeral." TIME Los Angeles correspondent Jeffrey Ressner says the day's biggest surprise was the Academy's passing over...