Word: fictions
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Here's a work of fiction--no, scratch that, a testament of bitter truth--that answers a question unasked since the dawn of literature: What is a mortgage bond? The answer in Bombardiers (Random House; 319 pages; $22) seems to be: That which the selling of makes your teeth itch. The first sentence of Po Bronson's desperate, funny, booklong rant at bucket-shop marketing of financial chaos neatly pelletizes his entire volume: "It was a filthy profession, but the money was addicting, and one addiction led to another, and they were all going to hell...
ENGAGED. LARRY KING, 61, talk-show host, and DEANNA LUND, 57, actress; in Los Angeles. No date has been set for the wedding, which according to King will be his fifth (other published estimates make it his seventh--at least). Lund, who appeared in the '60s science-fiction television series Land of the Giants, shares with some of her predecessors blond hair, a whirlwind courtship (five weeks) and, of course, a prenuptial agreement...
...them, but ask yourself this: a year ago, did you know--or even guess--that when the Academy Awards rolled around again the odds-on favorite to sweep a bunch of the big ones would be something called Forrest Gump? Or that its chief competitor would be Pulp Fiction? And what about Four Weddings and a Funeral, also in the running for best picture? Did you imagine that a $4 million romantic comedy, made in England, with no big stars, would turn out to be, dollar-in, dollar-out, the most profitable picture of the year? For that matter...
...What used to be saved for nonfiction for the intermediate grades is now fiction for the early readers," says Steven Herb, education librarian at Pennsylvania State University. Smoky Night and Celebrations are part of a larger trend among publishers toward "expanding what is publishable...
...sums up the cynicism of Cock-a-doodle-doo. Unlike the hero of Robert Penn Warren's political classic, All the King's Men, Jack is for sale almost at once. Weiss tells much of his thirtysomething story through party scenes, and he easily passes a tricky test of fiction writing: displaying a sharp sense of when to start a sequence roiling, when to let his party sizzle and when to cut away from...