Word: fictions
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...dispute wound up in a Manhattan courtroom last week and on Court TV and provided some entertainment for the winter-weary. Newspapers printed excerpts from Collins' spurned fiction ("'Don't call me your little cabbage,' she said savagely. 'I'm nobody's cabbage.'"), along with careful descriptions of her clothing. While grilling Evans, the actress's lawyer harked back, perhaps unintentionally, to a precept set forth in Aristotle's Poetics: "She turned in--however good, however bad--a story that had a beginning, a middle and an end, a completed manuscript?" After a pause, Evans said...
Phillips began writing the manuscript for White Rabbit less than two years after her 1988 graduation from Dartmouth College. She says she has always been interested in writing, but did not write fiction during her college years, with the exception of a few short stories that she self-deprecatingly describes as "crappy...
This is, or was, a true story, but invested as it is with relentlessly cliched emotions, it plays like cheap fiction. What a sometime visionary like Scott (Alien, Blade Runner, Thelma & Louise) is doing mixed up with it is hard to fathom. Or maybe it isn't. In today's cautious Hollywood, a seasick Dead Poets Society probably looks daring...
...that would have been a shame, for this novel marks a return to the high literary intensity that Vargas Llosa had mastered before his temporary detour into Peruvian public life. It is an attempt to track down, through the labyrinth of fiction, experiences that defy rational explanation...
GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS If he's so indispensable to Clinton, how does he have so much time to talk about fiction...