Word: fictionalization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...best-selling "Into Thin Air"). The leader of one of the ill-fated groups was Rob Hall, an Everest veteran and a close personal friend of Viesters. As his body froze, Hall managed to contact the IMAX team via radio. In a moment saved from kitschyness by being non-fiction, the IMAX team managed to patch him through to his pregnant wife in New Zealand and listened as he named his first-born before dying. The emotional impact of the tragedy sent the IMAX team back down to base camp for some mental recovery time. Several had thoughts of leaving...
Dorothy Allison, author of Bastard out of Carolina and other fiction that could be pirated for an album's worth of country-and-western, knows a thing or two about lonely nights and cheating hearts. She also has a grip on the elementary physics of gender: women are centripetal, the force that binds. Men are centrifugal; for all their good intentions, they feel best when whirling away from the center...
...intellectual; during the most dramatic years of his leadership, he gulped philosophy books, commented on the Bible, flirted with Buddhism, even taught himself ancient Greek in order to read Plato in the original; he had a relentless curiosity about the natural sciences (but no taste for fiction or the fine arts). He would quote Spinoza as if throwing rocks at a rival. Verbal battle, not dialogue, was his habitual mode of communication. Rather than a philosopher, he was a walking exclamation mark, a tight, craggy man with a halo of silvery hair and a jawbone that projected awesome willpower...
This is gross science fiction sensationalism, but Newman has framed the debate as one of ideological extremes and in doing so has done a great disservice to a fair discussion and an important scientific inquiry. For one thing, Newman and other critics do not weigh heavily enough the possible benefits that could result from inter-species genetic manipulation...
Eventually, of course, I outgrew this kind of pretending. But as someone who has been involved with noir for a while, I am surprised by the sudden resurgence of interest in noir film and fiction. The heyday of noir was in the late '40s and early '50s. Between then and the middle of the '90s, the genre was nearly ignored...