Word: fictions
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...into the audience. The picture found an audience, and instantly theaters were flooded with 3-D movies - more than 100 features and shorts in the next two years. Though the most famous ones were in the genres of horror (House of Wax, Creature from the Black Lagoon) and science fiction (It Came from Outer Space), the format also attracted A-list directors. The Vincente Minnelli musical Kiss Me Kate was shot in 3-D, as was Alfred Hitchcock's Dial 'M' for Murder...
...normality. The wife and three children, the faithful retrievers, the rambling old house in Ossining, N.Y. - in all its outward signs, his life was commensurate with his role as the man who was, with John Updike, the esteemed chronicler of the postwar suburbs. But if you came to his fiction expecting sunlit scenes of American life, you were mistaken. Though his work was shot through with the beauty and abundance of the world, of suburban "nights where kings in golden suits ride elephants over the mountains," there was also failure and weakness at every turn. The men were poorly equipped...
...fiction books...
...expression. I think it is even the art of today.” Varda’s first feature film, “La pointe courte” (1954), stars local fishermen and their families as themselves, a technique she often uses in her work, which blends documentary and fiction. One of her most celebrated films, “Sans toit ni loi” (“Vagabond”), tells the story of a young wandering girl, Mona (Sandrine Bonnaire), as she marches toward her inevitable death. In preparation for the film, Varda became a vagabond herself, wandering...
...Still, Hawkins' theory is one of the more legitimate attempts at a Stonehenge explanation. In the 12th Century, the legend of King Arthur wasn't completely regarded as fiction. In his account of Stonehenge, historian Geoffrey of Monmouth wrote that troops tried to move the stones from Ireland to England in order to provide a monument for their war dead. When they couldn't, they enlisted the help of the wizard Merlin to transport the massive stones - some weighing as much as 50 tons - back to Britain before arranging them in the current configuration...