Word: fictions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...baseball's past was grander, it is only because we don't remember it. Babe Ruth was traded. The Black Sox scandal was not fiction. And the Red Sox and Cubs have come closer to championships than a lot of other teams...
Some authors write good novels, and others write novels that get made into good movies. Larry McMurtry has managed to do both, and at the same time. His highly praised fiction includes several titles -- The Last Picture Show, Terms of Endearment -- that are probably more familiar to filmgoers than to readers. And Lonesome Dove, for which he was awarded the 1986 Pulitzer Prize, won huge ratings last winter as a TV mini-series...
...under terms dictated by the Honecker regime, the special refugee trains were required to travel back through East German territory before depositing their human cargo in Bavaria. The face-saving yet ultimately self-defeating scheme was designed to permit authorities to engage in the fiction that they were "expelling" disloyal citizens. In the end, this petty legalism only encouraged more to flee. As the freedom trains slowed along hills and at curves, daring East Germans hopped aboard and joined the flight to the West...
...WHITE SEASON. A polite white liberal turns radical after confronting the brutality of South African racism. Drama that couples the pulse of popular fiction with a jolt of moral outrage...
...Still Life with Chair Caning, 1912, is mechanically printed oilcloth, and its presence in the tiny painting -- worked over with that fierce slanting clutter of painted images, newspaper, glass, cut lemon and so forth -- is a double play with signs, not the insertion of something real into a fiction...