Word: fictions
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...genius and man of the people, whose deformity (and the sense of outsidership it fostered) resonated with his marginal subjects -- the whores, dancers, cabaret singers, the proletariat in search of cheap lurid pleasure, in sum the Montmartre demimonde -- to produce a truly "compassionate" art. This is largely a sentimental fiction, as Thomson argues in detail in the show's excellent catalog...
...blow; journalists like to consider themselves outcasts from decent society, and novelist Grisham is telling them that their reading on the nation's revulsion meter is insignificant. Grantham's fellow fugitive and lady love is Darby Shaw, a beautiful law student who, in the finest tradition of 19th century fiction, is saved from a life of litigation when she drops out of law school perilously close to the bar exam. Honor almost stained is surefire, and in successive Grisham melodramas, we may expect heroines rescued at the last moment from careers as Congresswomen, TV weather babblers and Tobacco Institute scientists...
Following Lerner, Mitchell contrasted Wollstonecraft's Vindication to her fiction. While Vindication was an optimistic work, she said, it was later dwarfed by Wollstonecraft's more pessimistic novels, which revealed her views on the inequality between men and women...
...title is a heavy-handed exploitation of the considerable popular interest in women and American writing. The interest itself is entirely merited; as Pearlman and Henderson posit, "[t]he sheer numbers of women writing today and the high quality of poetry, drama and fiction by those women are the by-products of the second women's movement and the social, political and psychological changes it has wrought." While their argument that women dominate the modern literary scene in America is plausible and promising, their presentation of it is woefully amateurish...
Another science fiction story set in a futuristic wasteland devoid of morals and any sort of acceptable ecology. The story starts off well and then descends in a spiral of miserable chase scenes. Mick Jagger is surprisingly good while Emilio Estevez is mediocre. Anthony Hopkins is also present here, in his first role since his wonderfully chilling portrayal of Hannibal Lechter in Silence of the Lambs...