Word: fictions
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...exciting time in animation," says Chris Meledandri, president of Fox Animation Studios, which started work this month on Planet Ice, a science-fiction adventure that melds traditional and CGI art. "The shackles are coming off. We're creating whole worlds that come out of the imagination. There's so much freedom for storytelling...
...tense now glittering in tuxedos and sequins. There was some disappointment over Tom Wolfe's absence. The room, so festive in black, had expected a coronation for the man so tailored in white: his A Man in Full was the talk of the town, the favorite for the fiction prize. But then John Updike, the most influential of America's living novelists, took the stage looking as sharp as a scythe. What a night for a beheading...
Brain surgery without blood? Sounds like science fiction, but research shows that an instrument called a gamma knife can safely--and bloodlessly--shrink acoustic neuromas, one of the most common forms of benign brain tumor. The "knife" delivers a onetime dose of radiation that's shaped to the exact parameters of the targeted tumor...
...while lacking a certain degree of variety (the names of the characters and the titles of the stories tend to become muddled in one's mind, a happenstance which might be avoided had the stories been read in their individual magazine formats) nonetheless form an effective collection of nineties fiction. A wise suggestion, however, is that each story be read slowly and individually, and not the book as a whole on a beach in the summer or in front of the fireplace on a cold Sunday night. The stories, as mentioned before, tend to start sounding the same when read...
Stine (Christian Roulleau '01) is a hack writer who churns out detective pulp to feed the studios, living vicariously through his fictional hero and alter ego, the hardboiled gumshoe Stone (Dan Berwick '01). As Stine and his artistic integrity wrestle ineffectually with Buddy Fidler (Kevin Meyers '02), the big cheese at the studio, to produce a ratings safe screenplay, the hapless writer fantasizes by typewriter Stone's life of adventure. The fiction parallels the reality, and the reality is finally defined by the fiction, all in a convoluted but highly enjoyable way. Throughout, a bristling stable of beautiful, gutsy women...