Word: fictions
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...that machinelike predictability was its major drawback. Regular characters came and went, coupled and uncoupled, but the relationships seemed inspired less by anything organic in the show than by the simple need to open up new gag territory. Gags, moreover, that too often depended on the quaint TV fiction that people always play out their intimate moments in front of at least four other people. Cheers was a bar where everybody not only knew your name; they also knew your embarrassing secrets and the details of your sex life...
...typical. Hardly anyone involved with the musical admits to having liked the movie or to having studied it during the years of revision. Prince dismisses it as "a glamorous trick." The style he sought, along with Kander, Ebb and librettist Terrence McNally, was the magic realism of Latin American fiction, in which everyday behavior lurches into the weird. If there was a screen influence, Prince says, it was Dennis Potter's The Singing Detective, a TV miniseries that hopscotched among layers of reality and expected audiences to get their bearings gradually, by osmosis. Says Prince: "The way the numbers...
Keneally's romantic chauvinism runs wide and deep in his 20th work of fiction, which includes novels about the American Civil War (Confederates) and the Holocaust (Schindler's List). "City bad! Country good!" is the message never far from the heart of Kate's story. Were it not for the range of his talents, the temptation would be to compare Keneally to Larry McMurtry, the elegiast of the American suburb and Texas history. Both can go over the top and still keep readers asking "What next?" Especially Keneally, who can play it hot or cool, tragic or comic, without forgetting...
Although it strives for more, in the end First Night is merely an amusing romance. It never quite convinces the audience that the characters walk a fine line between fact and fiction. First Night desperately wants to convince us that its dreams have more power than our reality. Instead, the audience is left with a pleasantly diverting two hours, a pleasant break from mundane life. Maybe in the end this is all dreams should...
...point of agreement last week was that both the scientists and the - politicians still know very little about Americans' private predilections. Part of the reason so much fiction has persisted is that scientists have not succeeded in securing federal funding to do much research. In the late 1980s, Congress approved two national surveys of sexual behavior, one for adults and the other for teens. But conservatives, led by Senator Jesse Helms and Representative William Dannemeyer, killed the measures. They argued that the studies would give homosexuality more standing than it deserves...