Word: fictions
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...visage at the multiplex next summer. And he's only one of a complete cast of computer-generated actors in Final Fantasy, a Columbia Pictures feature with a rumored budget of $70 million, based loosely on the multimillion-selling series of PlayStation games of the same title. A science-fiction epic that deals with earth's response to alien invasion in 2065, Fantasy looks to be the first movie that does for humans what Steven Spielberg did for dinosaurs and Pixar did for toys and bugs: build living, breathing replicas out of electrons...
After his work with Lee, Kessler went into television, becoming a writer for the short-lived science fiction series "The Visitor" on Fox and then NBC's "Providence...
Pursuing the identity of Deep Throat has been Garment's hobby for years. Some people suspected that Garment himself was the spectral man in the underground garage. Garment rejects the speculation that Deep Throat was either 1) a fiction, or 2) a composite, as I have often thought. John Dean claimed (for a time) that Deep Throat was Alexander Haig. Other suspects have ranged from Henry Kissinger to the CIA's William Colby, Cord Meyer and Richard Helms to the FBI's Patrick Gray and Mark Felt...
...sounds like science fiction: scientists take cells from a damaged eye, grow them in a dish, put them back in place and restore a patient's eyesight. But this is fact, not fiction, and vision was restored not just to one person but to dozens of blind or nearly blind patients in Taiwan...
...upbringing became the collective endeavor of a group of elderly relatives with abiding faith in both religion and folklore who spent endless hours telling fantastical stories--"tales of ghost dogs and people rising from the dead." The residue of these stories has found its way into Kenan's fiction. In the short story Clarence and the Dead, the young title character demonstrates an unnerving gift of clairvoyance: "He told Sarah Phillips to stop fretting, that her husband forgave her for the time she tried to stab him with that hunting knife; he told Cleavon Simpson his mama despised...