Word: fictions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...long after the fact, for a news organization to detect that it has been the victim of disinformation. One classic instance that took months to expose: the rash of stories planted among Western journal ists that the late Soviet leader Yuri Andropov was a fan of jazz and Western fiction and a closet liberal...
...about half that length. The trouble with the movie version of this tale is that it is entirely, and rather glumly, preoccupied with that labyrinthine plot. There is no time left in the film for those observations about character, setting and political background that at least gave the original fiction the force of caring craftsmanship and sober moral concern...
...left behind. It is not merely that the fulfillments he finds on his stroll along the path to salvation must be contrasted to the jazzy emptiness of the women's lives. The plot must also be maneuvered toward a denouement in which Isabel gets the comeuppance that popular fiction always metes out to the emotionally blind. And poor Sophie, besotted by drugs and sunken to prostitution, must suffer, despite Larry's noble attempt at rescue, the instructive tragedy that popular fiction always awards the emotionally vulnerable...
...Forum will accept non-fiction works of three to 15 pages originally submitted in an undergraduate course and not previously published, according to founder and president Jeffrey A. Rosen '56. The magazine has placed boxes for submissions on the first floors of Hilles and Lamont libraries and also will ask professors and prize committees to recommend papers for publication...
...lusty solo king-of-the-hill yells while helping the people across town to fight a fire and demanding that the central government provide roads, protection, cheap land and transportation. Not that the country ever claimed not to be odd. Inscrutable West. Why does America prefer to wear a fiction when the facts show the nation in a better light? Who was that masked...