Word: fictions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Hardly anyone denies the Stealth's appeal. Outwardly the B-2, as it has been designated, looks like something out of a science-fiction movie. Its sleek design and black exterior give it the look of a cool, efficient fighting machine. Developers claim the Stealth can fly at speeds upwards of 600 m.p.h. while remaining undetected by even the most advanced radar systems. Experts say that the Soviets won't be able to distinguish between the Stealth and two birds flying together...
...script-writer for the TV series "Star Trek: The Next Generation," Fries last night told a group of about 30 people at a gathering sponsored by the Harvard-Radcliffe Science Fiction Association that his job often entails some difficult creative decision-making...
...Cheever provides a quick, easy answer: no. The author believed, as he once wrote a friend, that "the common minutiae of life" are "the raw material of most good letters." Cheever's letters are crammed with everyday details, although such information does not shed much new light on his fiction, which was luminous enough to begin with. To learn more about Cheever is to take a refresher course in the pleasure of his company. He could toss off a letter that made even a motel remarkable: "The furniture was of no discernible period or inspiration and I think...
SOCIALLY, the term is meaningless. Jackson may have tried to create a coalition of minorities, but the "Rainbow Coalition" is closer to fiction than reality. Each minority has its own issues and agenda, and people of one minority may not feel any kinship with people of another ethnic background...
...sustained attempt to live a fiction, and to cast its spell over the minds of others." The words are not Neal Gabler's. They are taken from Sir Isaiah Berlin's characterization of Benjamin Disraeli. But it is a measure of this book's range, seriousness and distance from the typical Hollywood history that Gabler can comfortably evoke an Oxford scholar's description of a 19th century English Prime Minister to define the achievements of the first generation of movie mogul-ogres...