Word: fictionalizes
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...freeing film-acting from good manners, Heston proved there was thrilling life in the endangered tradition of speaking well and looking great. And when he wasn't the movies' avatar of antique glory, he was our emissary to the future: the last man on earth in two dystopian science-fiction films, Planet of the Apes and The Omega Man. Heston was the alpha and omega of movie manhood--our civilized ancestor, our elevated destiny...
...Harvard.” The Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright’s apologies drew laughter at every line from a Lowell Lecture Hall audience of more than 250, including University President Drew G. Faust. It was a slyly appropriate opening to a speech entitled “Fiction that’s True: Historical Fiction and Anxiety.” Kushner performing Kushner confessed guilt at being an artist—“fooling around in a world of trouble.” But in a wide-ranging discussion on the relationship between art and history, Kushner made...
...imaginative quality of Clarke’s work cemented his place among great science fiction writers. “Clarke was a visionary who shaped our awareness of the future,” says Seo-Young J. Chu, a lecturer in the History and Literature department and follower of Clarke’s work...
Clarke was one of few science fiction writers whose work was widely appreciated in literary circles. “What he wrote was classical science fiction,” Pohl says. “It was just that he did it better than almost anyone else.” Clarke’s work earned him a knighthood and two Nobel Prize nominations, among various other awards and honors...
Clarke’s work consistently pushed the boundaries of science fiction through vivid depictions of imagined worlds. His legacy is perhaps best described in his own words, penned in a 1962 essay: “The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible...