Word: fictions
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
When Rob Malda founded Slashdot slashdot.org) all he wanted was a place on the Internet where he and his friends in Holland, Mich., could talk about stuff they liked: computers, the Linux programming language, science fiction--geek stuff. "There weren't any websites doing the subject matter I wanted," says Malda, who lives in Holland, and goes by the nom-de-nerd Commander Taco. "It all just kinda grew out of that very, very informally." By the time Slashdot was officially launched in 1997, the Net was hot, and geek culture was hip. Now, hyped only by word of mouth...
...filmmaker ever since, with James L. Brooks, the producer of both Say Anything...and Jerry Maguire, as a de facto professor. Not entirely happy with his direction of Singles in 1992, Crowe took a break and began studying the work of other filmmakers. Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction, he says, taught him how to make his gonzo structure hold together. Like Brooks, Crowe resists traditional screenplay rules, instead laying out his scenes like chapters or tracks on an album...
...Vidal's historical series, particularly as it applies to the biggest winners, U.S. presidents. Burr casts both Jefferson and George Washington in a harsh light. "Lincoln" portrays its protagonist as almost diabolically unknowable in his use of power; "Empire" makes merry with the boisterously ambitious Theodore Roosevelt. Vidal's fiction strives mightily to transform the faces on the Mount Rushmore monument into rubble and scree...
...fall 2000 campaign gets into gear, the Democratic and Republican presidential candidates will be sure to keep the spin hot and heavy, especially in the debates (whenever they are). But before you try to separate the fact from the fiction, here are some myths which are important to debunk before we help choose the world's Most Powerful Man (and his sidekick...
...Assassin, set in the 1930s, in which a wealthy woman carries on a clandestine affair with a man hiding out from the law, apparently because of his actions as a labor organizer. To keep her attention (when they aren't having sex), he invents and tells aloud a science-fiction tale about a planet called Zycron, populated by tyrannical Snilfards and subjugated Ygnirods. "I suppose this is your Bolshevism coming out," the woman teases...