Word: fictions
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Koernke's passion, however, was science. He devoured science fiction (even today, the Star Trek books and the German Perry Rodan series, about a band of heroic warriors who take over the solar system, dominate his home bookcase) and, says science teacher William Eisenbeiser, devised elaborate schemes to build everything from a spaceship to a machine that would extract oil from shale. According to the Dexter Leader of April 24, 1975, Koernke won several science-fair prizes, one for a "communications antenna" that "is now being sold to nasa." Despite grades that several of his teachers recall as unspectacular...
...would serve five years in prison for "transmitting a threat across state lines" (electronically) had frightened other online provocateurs and promised to be a test-case for censorship in cyberspace. TIME's Wendy Cole, who has interviewed Baker, says he severely regretted naming the other student in his fiction. Judge Avern Cohn, in his dismissal order today, noted that the government lost enthusiasm for the case "once it recognized that the communication which so much alarmed the University of Michigan officials was only a rather savage and tasteless piece of fiction...
...slicing women's throats does the world really need? But most other judgments of taste are more difficult calls. Both of the films that Dole deplored, Natural Born Killers and True Romance, happen to have been written by Quentin Tarantino. He's also the explosively gifted director of Pulp Fiction, the great cockeyed movie where that guy quotes from the Bible and the gun goes brrrr and some younger viewers think it's cool-lots of older viewers too. In the effort to achieve a kid-friendlier culture, do we want to end up with a sanitized one, free...
...unfairly singling out Time Warner for what is a culture-wide problem. For instance, he criticized two Warner movies -- Natural Born Killers (a box-office success) and True Romance (a flop), both based on stories by Quentin Tarantino -- but ignored Tarantino's critically acclaimed but equally violent Pulp Fiction and Reservoir Dogs, both released by Miramax, a division of Walt Disney Co. Disney also owns Hollywood Records, whose performers include such controversial rappers as Prince Akeem...
...leads to bootless speculation along the lines of "Lordy, is he really that charming?" and "My word, did he really do all that crazy stuff?" A good rule is to ignore the confessional tease and assume that if it's called a novel on the title page, it's fiction...