Word: fictions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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LAST WEEK FICTION WEEK 1 LUCKY, Collins...
...years my dad would rig the set with booby traps so he could tell if I snuck TV time while they were out to dinner. But I sneaked anyway. When baby-sitters would inevitably fall asleep, I'd sneak downstairs and watch Science Fiction Theater and other taboo shows with the sound on very low. My folks were also prudent about the movies I could see. They had taken me to see Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs when I was six, and when the wicked queen turned into a hag and a skeleton crumbled into pieces, I burst into...
...hear people talk down at the cafe, you'd think we were being invaded by hostile aliens from a grade-B science fiction movie. A new brood of 13-year cicadas, estimated to be in the millions, has crawled up out of the ground in a big part of the country's midsection. Its members are trying their wings, singing like crazy and mating in a very public way. In a few weeks they will die off and be gone, but for now they are quite the topic of conversation...
...writer, live in Princeton with their son Ernesto, 13. "I've lost time," he says of the decade between his imprisonment and exile. "I spent ten years fighting and trying to remain alive." Now he is trying to make up those silent years. In addition to writing poetry and fiction, he turns out several columns a week for Latin newspapers, including the Spanish-language section of the Miami Herald. Unlike many other exiles -- Alexander Solzhenitsyn is his example -- he does not brood over the past or look wistfully toward the place of his birth. "I do not admire people...
...onslaught of insularity in the '50s, many of the diaspora scattered again, finding refuge back home in European co-productions. Hollywood was retreating into familiar genres: into the memorial expanses of westerns like High Noon (directed by the Austrian Fred Zinnemann) or the paranoid apocalypse of science-fiction films like The War of the Worlds (produced by the Hungarian George Pal) or grandiose melodramas like Written on the Wind (directed by the Dane Douglas Sirk) or effervescent comedies like Some Like It Hot and The Apartment (both directed and co-written by the Austrian Billy Wilder) or the sleek thrillers...