Word: fictions
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...straight-forward, bluntly honest voice--one might surmise that after thirty years experience with school-age children, the author's gift for clearing out needless discourse has been honed to a razor's edge. Simple diction, while vital for pedantry, has its drawbacks in the modern non-fiction market: every once in a while Kohl's hand can be felt patting the reader on the head, as if recruiting another kindergartner into his throngs of supporters. This is not to say that condescension (if it can be called such) is not totally displeasing; the smothering presence of a truly dedicated...
...with many stereotypes, Jewish female generalizations emerge from some combination of fact and fiction. Many who use the terms describe their being "just the perfect description" of a certain person they know...
Oppenheim believes himself able to view women as individuals in his daily encounters. No doubt his female friends would agree. However, it is disturbing that his defense of "sexual objectification" culminates in this sentence: "Idealizations are a fiction, and those who confuse fiction with reality have bigger problems that the posters on their walls." Oppenheim feels that if men don't treat real women as they would a poster, then there isn't a problem. But his use of the word "idealization" to describe a poster of a body that has no connection to an individual betrays deeper truths about...
...Hillary directs the counterattack against Ken Starr. Meanwhile, the Clinton-hating American Spectator claims Hillary "looked shaken" when she heard Clinton had given Lewinsky Whitman's Leaves of Grass and quotes her saying, "He gave me the same book after our second date." What's fact and what's fiction? Are we reverberating...
...full professionally too. He turned down As Good As It Gets, Jackie Brown and Good Will Hunting but has seemingly appeared in every other film produced in the past three years. "I get the top scripts now, and that's a beautiful thing," he beams. Since 1994's Pulp Fiction gave him a "second chance" at stardom, he's shot 10 movies nearly back to back, outpacing Hollywood workhorses Gene Hackman and Kevin Bacon. "I mean, he's gotta take some time off," declares co-star Kathy Bates. "Every time I turn around, he's in another picture. When...