Word: fictions
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...ancient Mediterranean world. Christ's pedigree -- his virgin birth in Bethlehem of Judea, home of his reputed ancestor King David -- is retrospective mythmaking by writers who had "already decided on the transcendental importance of the adult Jesus," Crossan says. The journey to Bethlehem from Nazareth, he adds, is "pure fiction, a creation of Luke's own imagination." He speculates that Jesus may not even have been Mary's firstborn and that the man the Bible calls his brother James was the eldest child. Crossan argues that Jesus did not cure anyone but that he did "heal" people by refusing...
...catch a sense of Crichton, one must summon other failed physicians who ^ turned to fiction, though failed, perhaps, is the wrong word. Conan Doyle. More recently, Walker Percy. In The Moviegoer, Percy wrote of "the search." What's the search? Well, you poke about the neighborhood and don't miss a trick. Somehow, it all has to do with novelists trained in the field of science, men like Crichton who found science too unimaginative...
...This "Freud effect" is not unlike the quick, coarse expressiveness of Frans Hals, but less benign. A broader stroke didn't diminish the closeness of his inspection. If Velazquez had ever chosen to paint water dribbling from a spout, he might have come up with the sort of brilliant fiction about unstable, passing appearances that Freud achieved in Two Japanese Wrestlers by a Sink, 1983-87. (The "Japanese wrestlers" of the title are not real sumo contenders, but fragmentary pictures of them pinned to the wall.) There are amazing feats of sheer visual dissection in this show, such...
...this past summer, a white gentleman gave me this bit of advice. "While you're in Asia, don't make big arm gestures--it intimidates them." With an entirely straight face, he told me he knew it was true because he'd read it in Michael Crichton's pulp fiction classic, Rising...
...inadvertently hilarious 1958 science-fiction film Attack of the 50 Foot Woman, now re-made for HBO (Dec. 11, 8 p.m. EST), Nancy is trapped by a philandering husband and a cruel, cruel fate. Afflicted with ray burns suffered when she is seized by a huge space monster, Nancy is transmogrified into a murdering colossus and ultimately killed by a sheriff wielding a riot...