Word: fictionalizes
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...sounds like science fiction, but it's real--a heat ray that can zap a mob and force people to flee without inflicting permanent injury. On Jan. 24 the U.S. military unveiled its Active Denial System, right, which shoots a beam of electromagnetic radiation calibrated to cause an intense burning sensation (similar to touching a hot lightbulb) but no long-term damage. Unlike traditional brute-force tools of dispersal--such as batons and rubber bullets, which can maim or even kill--a new wave of high-tech crowd-control devices promises to keep the peace without causing casualties...
...sounds like science fiction - a heat ray that can zap rioting protesters, forcing them to flee without inflicting injuries. But the U.S. military's Active Denial System - which shoots a beam of electromagnetic radiation, causing its target to experience a burning sensation - is just the latest attempt to make crowd control more effective yet less lethal. Unlike traditional brute-force methods of dispersal - such as rubber bullets and batons, which can maim or even kill - a new wave of hi-tech crowd-control gadgets promises to keep the peace without causing casualties...
...John Walker, Jerry Whitworth, Vitaly Yurchenko and all the others have turned the genre of spy fiction into a reflection of a dismal reality. Kevin M. McGehee Sacramento...
Better than anyone else, Grant understood that his public persona was a fiction, and a highly stylized one at that. "Everyone wants to be Cary Grant," he liked to say. "I want to be Cary Grant." Indeed, in a strange way, it had been his lifelong ambition, though at first he could not have given a name to his goal or, as he also admitted, define it with any accuracy. "I don't know that I've any style at all," he once told an interviewer. "I just patterned myself on a combination of 'Jack Buchanan [a debonair English musical...
...Hall's blackly comic and underrated Hitler (2000), these stories now include a mustard gas-blinded future F?hrer who staggers off an Illawarra and South Coast Steamship Company boat in 1919, making fiendish fun of "the fact, universally acknowledged, that nothing ever happens in Australia." With his finely fervent fiction, Rodney Hall proves that...