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Word: fictions (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...novelist, Amis has demonstrated a facility for inversion (Time's Arrow runs history backward). Here the story Straight Fiction posits a society in which homosexuality is the social norm and heterosexuals are fearful of discovery. Career Move illustrates what might happen if poems rather than prose became movie material. "The only thing we have a problem on 'Sonnet' with...is the form," says a Hollywood producer to a dismayed poet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bitter Sweets | 2/8/1999 | See Source »

...push ahead. She says the Fugees "definitely aren't broken up," though the members have to "sit down and see where all our heads are at." She has her own production company, and she might steer it in a unique direction: "I'm looking to produce black science-fiction films." Then there's her tour. She'll perform her first solo show in the U.S. on Feb. 18 in Detroit. But she'll take time out to attend the Grammys in Los Angeles on Feb. 24, for which she has received 10 nominations. "There are kids in the audiences...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Hip-Hop Nation: Lauryn Hill | 2/8/1999 | See Source »

Jackson, a graduate of Morehouse University, received an Academy Award nomination and Golden Globe nomination for his role as the philosophizing assassin Jules in "Pulp Fiction," as well as Golden Globe nominations for "Jackie Brown" and "A Time to Kill...

Author: By Joyce K. Mcintyre, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Hasty Pudding Names Hawn, Jackson Woman and Man of the Year | 2/3/1999 | See Source »

...About 80 per cent of the movie was fiction;all of the great scenes never happened," he said...

Author: By Robert K. Silverman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Real Life Cast of `A Civil Action' Reunites at HLS | 2/3/1999 | See Source »

Despite the contributions of these four pioneers, the shockumentary genre is really the child of Mike Darnell, the Fox vice president of specials and alternative programming, who saved the network when it was drowning in failed sitcoms. In 1995, Darnell slotted Alien Autopsy: Fact or Fiction?, after which there was no turning back to Herman's Head. The next year, after seeing Nelson's World's Most Dangerous Animals, he persuaded Lachman to turn out the edgier When Animals Attack for sweeps. Now Darnell comes up with 75% of the ideas for Fox's reality specials, grateful that the phrases...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: When Good Networks Go Bad | 2/1/1999 | See Source »

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