Word: novelists
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...season's oddest talent combo could be a sleeper hit. Rob Reiner directs a Stephen King story, with James Caan playing a novelist imprisoned by his biggest fan. Horror at Christmas? A gamble, but this one could...
...Digger's Game. If somebody isn't teaching this small marvel in writing classes, then U.S. education is in worse shape than we have been told. Probably not, though; there is an indictable villainy or two in the plot, and Higgins is pigeonholed, wrongly but irretrievably, as a crime novelist...
...easy. This drives the author a little crazy when he thinks about it, and he thumps down a precept that could be carved in stone: "Dialogue is character is plot." In a shrewd book published last June, On Writing, he approvingly notes that John O'Hara, a novelist he admires above almost all others, would tell a whole chapter with dialogue -- a husband and wife, for instance, punching with their words, counterpunching, drawing blood. Similarly, novelist Higgins will let a conversation run on till Tuesday after next...
...learned to call marriages of this kind "traditional," putting a slight, sneering spin on the word. Just as this movie refuses to impose a thrusting dramatic structure on a story that is all incident, it also refuses to adopt anachronistic sociological attitudes toward its people. It retains novelist Connell's tone -- one of ironic compassion -- and sustains as well the perfect pitch of his voice, never going flat or sharp. That is to say it neither falls into easy sentiment nor strains for cheap satire. Instead it grants the Bridges the dignity that they -- and most people of their time...
...wrote the novelist Virginia Woolf in 1929. In societies where male standards are considered normative, those female values have been viewed not only as secondary but also as somehow defective: based on emotion rather than reason, intuition rather than logic; ultimately incapable -- as Sigmund Freud suggested -- of shaping ethical judgments...