Word: fictions
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...curator of the Nieman Foundation, provided an answer. He suggested that children should be taught to read the newspapers in order to better informed citizens. In fact, he went as far as to complain that while there are plenty of courses to teach us how to read works of fiction, there is "no course to teach anyone how to read the most important book of their lives: the daily press...
Kovach gained the audience's applause by suggesting that children be "taught how to read media critically, the way they're taught how to read works of fiction...
...CHRISTMAS WISH] Pulp Fiction numbers and notoriety would be nice...
Most surprisingly absent from Opus Posthumous is the monumental and idiosyncratic "Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction." Stevens outlines his perfect poetics with instructions such as "it must be abstract," and then taunts us with glistening seascapes and fragrant, ripe fruits. The prime difficulty and import of Stevens' work lies here: his subject is at once immanent and idealized, both a radiant presence and a metaphysical abstraction. In a similar fashion, Stevens' best known shorter poems, among them "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird" and "Not Ideas About the Thing But the Thing Itself," concern themselves with the poet...
...Warner Brothers' Camelot, Anastasia promises to break Disney's long-held hegemony over animated features. Unfortunately, Fox has made the mistake of attempting to make a Disneyesque film better than Disney and in doing so, has made the same, crucial mistake as Disney: substituting historical fantasy for pure fiction, as in Disney's Pocahontas. With such great creative minds at their disposal, Disney and Fox opened unnecessarily problematic territory when they entered into the realm of historically inspired art with the prime intention of creating a blockbuster...