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Word: fictions (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...explores the manner in which truth somehow becomes a process of canonization. Though the popular legends around which these stories revolve range from James Dean to Ezra pound, the author exhibits a unity of purpose to depict a particular state of mind where the boundary between truth and fiction becomes hazy and indistinct. At the heart of these shitting surfaces lies Indiana itself, where these legends are tended and kept alive nameless, faceless acolytes...

Author: By Yoon SUN Lee, | Title: A Midwest Mindscape | 11/8/1984 | See Source »

...movie that is just as reckless. Crimes of Passion and its more lurid brethren in the skin trade are not for everyone, but they should at least be available for any consenting adult to savor or condemn. The porn vigilantes ignore two important partners in a work of fiction: the filmmaker, whose point of view explains and may even criticize the violent acts he depicts; and the moviegoer, who may just be perceptive enough to realize that what is happening on screen is merely a persuasive game of let's pretend. Movies did not create the problem of sexual...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Dark Nights for the Libido | 10/29/1984 | See Source »

...care more about language than almost anything else in the world," said Nancy Kline Piore, a fiction writer who is in the process of turning one of her novels into a play. "Most writers feel this way, We bring this into our teaching...

Author: By Margaret Seaver, | Title: Expos Teachers Talk on Value Of Writing Jobs | 10/26/1984 | See Source »

Sixty-four year old writer Grace Paley, self-proclaimed "combative pacifist and cooperative anarchist," brought her audience of 150 to laughs and tears last night with lively readings of her feminist fiction...

Author: By Nicholas P. Caron, | Title: Activist Author Grace Paley Reads Latest Feminist Fiction | 10/25/1984 | See Source »

...FICTION: Difficult Loves, Italo Calvino Foreign Affairs, Alison Lurie The Ink Truck, William Kennedy Mr. Noon, D.H. Lawrence ∙ Say Goodbye to Sam, Michael J. Arlen Young Hearts Crying, Richard Yates

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Editors' Choice: Oct. 22, 1984 | 10/22/1984 | See Source »

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