Word: novelizations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...World petropowers. In the '70s, when oil-price hikes seemed limitless, eager representatives from the industrialized world made pilgrimages to the doors of the oil-rich, looking to buy petroleum and to sell everything from weapons to steel mills. In the Middle East, the cascade of petrodollars brought about novel configurations of regional power, with Saudi Arabia taking a leading role. Bankers rushed to lend billions of dollars to such oil producers as Mexico and Nigeria, which were embarked on crash development programs. Always there was the worry that the industrialized world would be brought to its knees...
Canadian Author Margaret Atwood's sixth novel will remind most readers of Nineteen Eighty-Four. That can hardly be helped. Any new fictional account of how things might go horribly wrong risks comparisons either with George Orwell's classic or with Aldous Huxley's Brave New World. To a remarkable degree, these two books have staked out the turf of contemporary antiutopias. Which punishment is it to be this time? Relentless, inescapable totalitarianism or the mindless, synthetic stupors of technology? As it turns out, Atwood's look at the future takes place under conditions that Orwell would recognize. Repression...
...cautionary tale, Atwood's novel lacks the direct, chilling plausibility of Nineteen Eighty-Four and Brave New World. It warns against too much: heedless sex, excessive morality, chemical and nuclear pollution. All of these may be worthwhile targets, but such a future seems more complicated than dramatic. But Offred's narrative is fascinating in a way that transcends tense and time: the record of an observant soul struggling against a harsh, mysterious world...
Oliver Barrett would have a hard time recognizing the building where he stood at the bell desk, awaiting Jenny in Erich Segal's novel, "Love Story...
...theater, Alice Walker had to sit in the balcony reserved for blacks. But last week, dear God, Walker, 41, was triumphantly downstairs. The Pex literally put out the red carpet for the Pulitzer prizewinning writer, who used her hometown as the inspiration for her best-selling novel The Color Purple. Much of Eatonton (pop. 4,800) turned out for a benefit screening of the film based on her book. "I think of this movie as a gift to you," Walker told the audience of friends and family. "You've shown some very beautiful values to the world...