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Word: fictions (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that said, "The region is everything, the nation is a fiction" ? New York writers are really regional writers. It's just that one region purports to be the sensibility of the nation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KATE BRAVERMAN: From The Tropic of L.A.: Novelist and poet | 11/20/1989 | See Source »

What's worse, the Rockefellers actually get higher benefits than poor retirees. This is in keeping with the fiction that Social Security benefits are just a repayment of the individual's contribution...

Author: By John L. Larew, | Title: Middle Class on the Dole II | 11/15/1989 | See Source »

...Unfortunately, the narrator cannot imagine how Saul could have adapted to such a role: "The rest of the story, however, confronts me only with darkness, and the harder I try to see through it, the more impenetrable it becomes." Given this impasse, The Storyteller seems closer to fact than fiction: a fascinating tale left incomplete through circumscribed realities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Back In Time | 11/13/1989 | See Source »

...BEAR. When it comes to technique, this wondrous movie is to other nature films what Star Wars was to science fiction: a redefinition of the state of the art. Even the most sophisticated filmgoers will be enchanted by this ursine tale, told from a bear's point of view...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Voices: Nov. 13, 1989 | 11/13/1989 | See Source »

...also the latest novel by J.G. Ballard, a world-class writer of science fiction (The Day of Creation) and autobiography (Empire of the Sun). Old Ballard fans may regret the brevity of this latest installment, but they, along with new readers, are certain to solve the mystery before Dr. Greville does. As he explains, "My failure to recognize the obvious, in common with almost everyone else concerned, is a measure of the true mystery of the Pangbourne Massacre." In other words, as Ballard has suggested in other tales, the sleep of suburbia produces monsters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Suburban Sleep | 11/13/1989 | See Source »

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