Word: fictions
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Maybe the college professors think Shakespeare produced only 37 plays, but this off-Broadway lark is the Bard's long-lost science-fiction rock musical. Small of scale and free of spirit, it features the obligatory mad monster, fair maiden, evil scientist and heroic space pilot. Sci-fi junkies will recognize the plot from the 1956 MGM flick Forbidden Planet, which the more literary-minded in turn saw as an amalgam of Shakespeare's The Tempest and dime-store Freud. (The killer demons were escapees from the id of a man who, like most sci-fi antiheroes, tried to play...
...specific details about Thomas' alleged behavior. One of the "oddest episodes," she said, involved an exchange in Thomas' office when he reached for a can of Coke and asked, "Who has put pubic hair on my Coke?" (Later, Hatch accused Hill of stealing the story from a work of fiction. Holding aloft a copy of the book The Exorcist, Hatch quoted, "There seems to be an alien pubic hair in my gin.") On other occasions, Hill maintained, "he referred to the size of his own penis as being larger than normal" and spoke of the pleasure he had "given...
...teen reader told Lang and the magazine's staff, "is that when I read it, it's like talking to my best friend on the telephone." Dirt will speak to teen boys the same way, says Lang, but in a male voice. That will mean a cool collection of fiction, short takes about school, sports, art and -- yes -- articles about girls. Sample headline: HEY, BABY, WHAT'S YOUR SIGN? AN IDIOT'S GUIDE TO FIRST DATES. Another refreshing notion: Sassy treats male teens as people -- not jerks or hunks -- and that respect for the opposite sex will cross over...
...mistake, sent the wrong signals, led him along. At first you try to pretend it didn't happen. You may do what I once did and keep lifting his hand off your knee as if it were some object that happened to fall there. You may even maintain the fiction of friendship for years, because anything is better than being demoted, in your own mind, to a deletable four-letter word...
...opened itself up to derision. It should quickly and publicly disassociate itself from the science fiction that Fardan espoused at their invitation...