Word: fictions
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Files." Yes, you are seeing that correctly. You didn't somehow skip to another piece about weird science fiction shows. Just to make sure you're following, I'll repeat it: 7. "The X-Files." About: Two FBI agents who investigate strange phenomena occasionally involving aliens and/or lies told by the government. Seeing this show on the list provided me with was by far the biggest laugh I got out of all this. Scully and Mulder liberal? Sheesh. I have yet to hear either conservative or political thinking advocated by anyone on this show. Hate to tell you this, folks...
...book in question is No. 1 on The Wall Street Journal's best-seller list for non-fiction and general interest books...
...story, teeming with picaresque characters and improbable adventures, reads like her novels. In Paula she weaves it, sometimes seamlessly, sometimes abruptly, between graphic passages on her daughter's illness, Allende's own despair, and her metaphysical meditations on the life of the spirit. If the line between fact and fiction seems to blur, Allende explains, "magical realism is not a literary device; it's how I live." Growing up in Santiago, she remembers the great aunt "who at the end of her life began to sprout the wings of a saint," and the clairvoyant grandmother who, Allende insists, could move...
...first perusal Thomas Beller's debut short-story collection, Seduction Theory (Norton; 205 pages; $21), appears as though it might be the chic literary equivalent of the TV comedy Friends. Beller, 30, is the co-founder of a talked-about Manhattan fiction journal, Open City, and the characters who people his 10 witty stories are plucked straight from a hyperexposed world of young, well-bred New Yorkers hopelessly flustered by attraction, ever fearful of love...
...DOLE'S ATTACK ON HOLLYWOOD IS laughable. In my lifetime, Washington has contributed more to the moral decay of America than Hollywood has. Hollywood at least is fiction; Washington is real life. Scott Sundback Saegertown, Pennsylvania Via America Online...