Word: fictions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sisters struggle against the barrier that divides reality and fiction, and so does the reader of Fuentes' Orchids, which the American Repertory Theater staged in 1982. For Fuentes and the three other writers featured in Drama Contemporary's Latin America, the barrier gives way to a "New Realism." Weakness and strength, male and female--seemingly antithetical forces--merge, furthering exploration and transcendence of artistic and human limitations...
...responded to the furor by agreeing to run a disclaimer at the beginning of each night's program reiterating that the drama is fiction. ABC News is considering airing a special segment of its Viewpoint series to provide a forum for both critics and defenders of the show. But the network has vowed not to cave in to pressure to tone down the controversial movie or cancel it. ABC President John Sias told the New York Times last week, "We're going to run that program come rain, blood or horse manure." Or deadlines: the sprawling project, for which more...
...fell short of her stated goals -- $6 million in damages and a ban on further showings of the film -- but she won from the defendants an admission that the movie had "unintentionally defamed" her. All new copies, including new videocassettes, must now carry prominent disclaimers labeling the story as fiction. She was also awarded $150,000, a sum that will just about cover her current legal expenses. Said her attorney, Harry L. Manion III: "We've won a permanent record for all the world...
...well-developed standard for judging the culpability of fiction; libel rulings have been concerned mostly with news reports. Real people have served as models for fictional characters, from Proust's Baron Charlus to Bellow's Humboldt. An author's weave of truth and invention is difficult to unravel, and never more so than in a semiautobiographical work like The Bell Jar, which was first published in Britain in 1963, just a month before Plath committed suicide. The story of a young woman's descent into madness spoke to the rising women's movement as well as the romantic instincts...
...fact that her suit even came to trial, much less that it resulted in a semi-success, disturbed many writers and First Amendment experts. "The idea that the more you fictionalize, the more you falsify, the more liable you become is quite intolerable," argues Harvard Law Professor Laurence Tribe. Even though the settlement creates no binding precedent, any Anderson victory, says Novelist Gilbert Sorrentino (Mulligan Stew), is "bad news for writers of fiction. It will open the floodgates for more cases like this...