Word: fictions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...docudramas, of course, have often drawn fire for their uneasy melding of fact and fiction. But rarely has one come along that so clearly demonstrates the potential abuses of the form. The Atlanta Child Murders, written and co- produced by Abby Mann (Judgment at Nuremberg, King), unearths no significant new evidence; it merely sifts through the record to reconstruct the defense's case. The film's kangaroo court then convicts the Atlanta police of incompetence, the city's black leadership of insensitivity and the criminal- justice system of railroading a suspect on the flimsiest evidence...
...Bondage fantasy, hero and bimbo attempt to defuse the situation, only to get captured, manacled and headed toward annihilation. But Dr. Castro is not Dr. No, Che is not Goldfinger, and the Cuban missile crisis was not some apocalyptic fantasy. It is to Buckley's credit that within his fiction, actual events are made as urgent and terrifying as they were in the bad old days...
...author of dozens of books, Michael Moorcock, 45, is a British writing machine who seems never to have been slowed by a rejection slip. He is aligned with the writers of science fiction's so-called new wave, who have tried to merge futurism into the mainstream of modern literature. The Laughter of Carthage is a formidable example, a work in which science and technology are subordinated to narrative techniques not usually found in popular fiction. The style is better appreciated when the novel is considered as a continuation of Moorcock's Byzantium Endures (1982), a work of similar grand...