Word: fictions
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...nothing new, Hamsher's gonzo take on NBK's evolution offers an insider's view of show-biz egos. Among the choice bits: details about Stone's stoned-out mushroom trip in the desert and Tarantino's close connection with Miramax, the company that released his hits Pulp Fiction and From Dusk till Dawn. Writes Hamsher: "Quentin had been running his mouth off for months, telling people that he made all the decisions at Miramax, and that when he snapped his fingers, HARVEY WEINSTEIN jumped." A spokesperson for Tarantino says he has read some of the book, and many...
Tyler Stewart, owner of Pandemonium, a science-fiction and fantasy bookstore in the Square, said his shop targets a specialized readership that the Coop Book Store would not affect...
...last. In 1988, responding to the continuing speculation about Roswell, the Center for UFO Studies (CUFOS) in Chicago sponsored a team to seek out the crash site, recover any remaining debris and interview surviving "witnesses." Three years later the key members of that team, science-fiction author Kevin Randle and CUFOS investigator Don Schmitt, published their conclusions in the book UFO Crash at Roswell. In addition to recovering a UFO at Roswell, they charged, the government had found and spirited away the remnants of its crew, several little alien bodies...
...been as an inescapable reference on Fox Television's The X-Files, a paranormal Dragnet that details the efforts of two wooden, underacted FBI agents to expose what has metastasized over the show's four seasons into an increasingly baroque conspiracy between the Federal Government and sinister extraterrestrials--a fiction whose particulars have been cherry-picked from among the wilder theories flitting through the UFO community. Its perspective is offered by John Price, founder of Roswell's UFO Enigma Museum, which began in 1988 in the back of his video store and today sprawls through four big rooms and features...
...tank's bid for nonprofit tax status required it to distance itself from partisan activities, staff members felt the group was "operated like a division" of the Republican National Committee. He cited examples of R.N.C. intervention to underline his "concern that separation between [the Forum] and R.N.C. is a fiction." A Barbour associate told TIME that all rules for nonprofits were strictly observed and that Baroody's caution on foreign cash was not heeded because nonprofits can legally raise overseas funds. Barbour voluntarily gave Senate investigators Forum documents dealing with the loan, but not Baroody's memo...