Word: fictionalizes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...SATANIC VERSES by Salman Rushdie (Viking; $19.95). Charges of blasphemy against the Prophet Muhammad have put Rushdie's book into international headlines. But there is no harm, only relentless artistry, in this encyclopedic fiction about the explosive, often comic meetings of East and West...
...ideal world, these legislators-for-life would reward the faithful electorate with an impressive display of bravery and statesmanlike behavior. So much for naive theory. To watch the House at work last week was akin to viewing one of those 1950s science-fiction movies in which the world quakes in dread of invaders from outer space. The climate of fear was that palpable...
...also approved a literary magazine called The Harvard Quarterly that publisher Pinaki Chakravorty '89 said will "be completely different from everything that has come out yet." The first issue will contain 130 pages printed in book form, with fiction, poetry and artwork by students...
...point I was a little worried about having my main character, Sherman McCoy, losing $6 million for his firm in about 15 minutes. I thought, "Well, this is fiction. I'll go ahead and do it." My typewriter had hardly stopped moving before I picked up the New York Times, and there on Page One was an account of a young investment banker, about the same age as my character, 38, who lost $250 million for his firm in a week. I felt like Alice in Wonderland, running as hard as I can to stay in the same place...
...cylindrical chamber, 4 ft. by 9 ft., is the sole possession of Jeff's Preservation Specialties, Inc., the company he operates out of a bare room in an industrial mall in Pinellas Park, Fla. The hulking chamber, with a glass window at one end, resembles those gadgets in science fiction movies that hold spacemen in a state of suspended animation while they hurtle toward distant galaxies light-years from earth. The chamber doesn't work that way, however. What it does is draw the moisture from dead organisms until they are mummified in a perfectly preserved state...