Word: fictions
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...presence among the dead of the brother of a Trekkie demigoddess was only the most startling intersection of reality and science fiction. The cult's work space in Rancho Santa Fe was decorated with posters of alien beings from The X-Files and E.T. On the farewell tape, a cultist even brings up Nichols' oeuvre in explaining his decision to leave behind his human "container": "We watch a lot of Star Trek, a lot of Star Wars, it's just, to us, it's just like going on a holodeck. We've been training on a holodeck...
...Files-meets-Revelation stew, however. The group plainly tailored its message in an attempt to be palatable to the broadest group of people possible. "Our dilemma was multifaceted: How do we present the information in a credible fashion, when to most, our Truth is definitely stranger than any fiction?" one Website posting wondered. "How do we avoid being seen as religious, in order not to 'turn off' those who rightfully despise the hypocrisy of what religions have become? At the same time, how do we acknowledge our past associations with this civilization which are primarily recorded in your Bible...
...dressed members of the group, identified only by their first names, have been traveling the country proselytizing, informing curious listeners that they were not seeking money, only recruits. Michael Upledger, a reporter for a Tampa, Florida, weekly newspaper, interviewed five cult members in 1994. "Their one vice was science fiction," he recalls. "They loved The X-Files, and they loved Star Trek: The Next Generation. It was the only time they really brightened up and came alive. They just lit up. We had a long conversation about which Star Trek was better, the old one or the new." As recently...
...separation of real and fake had something to do with real estate. For fantasy and romance we went from our house to the movie house, a cathedral of dreams whose dark grandeur signaled even to kids that what they were about to see was a fiction. Now that most of us watch movies on the same 21-in. machine that gives most of us our news, that NO TRESPASSING sign has disappeared. While The X-Files cunningly grounds its fables in docudrama style, items on the news shows get more dramatic and sentimental. Everything is just a story, with...
Best known for her 1977 hit musical Runaways, Swados boasts a prolific and diverse career on Broadway and off-Broadway. She has also toured, written two novels and non-fiction works and taught at New York University. Swados claims to have been interested in musical theater ever since she wrote her first song at five and her first musical in the second grade. As the next endeavor in her "moment-to-moment, improvisational life," Swados chose to come to Harvard because "it was a group of young people who wanted to explore the theater in a serious...