Word: novelists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Philip Roth said that we live in an age in which the imagination of the novelist is helpless before what he knows he will read in tomorrow's newspaper. And it's true! No one can dream up the things that pop up in the papers every...
...journalist at heart; even as a novelist, I'm first of all a journalist. I think all novels should be journalism to start, and if you can ascend from that plateau to some marvelous altitude, terrific. I really don't think it's possible to understand the individual without understanding the society...
...defiantly individualist novelist-journalist-social commentator, whose dissection of our contemporary culture has won comparisons with Dickens and Balzac, looks ahead to the '90s. Instead of the rampant greed of the waning decade, he foresees a slowing of the sexual revolution, a reviving interest in religion and a retreat from the vanities he has been chronicling so deftly...
...movie Her Alibi Selleck plays, to no surprise, a detective-novelist named Phillip Blackwood. Porizkova plays the Romanian beauty, Nina Ionescu, with whom Selleck falls in love. The twist to the plot comes when Nina is on trial for murder. Selleck, who is intrigued by her physical beauty, believes her to be innocent. He takes her under his wing by acting as her alibi; he uses her story to inspire the long overdue book that he is writing, and before you know it, voila, he falls in love with...
Citing Turner's versatility as one of her chief strengths, Dwyang noted that she has played roles as diverse as a love-struck novelist in "Romancing the Stone," a mafia assassin in "Prizzi's Honor," and a wholesome small-town teenager in "Peggy Sue Got Married...