Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...documentary fiction were impressive. NBC estimated that at one point or another, some 120 million Americans tuned in Holocaust. It scored 14 points lower than the alltime ratings winner, last year's Roots series, but still ranked second in the category of "entertainment." Author Gerald Green's novel, based on his script, is now in its tenth printing and has sold more than 1 million copies...
There's a marvelously funny scene in this cheerful Brazilian comedy-based on a novel by Jorge Amado-that depends for its effect on two social elements that would seldom be found together in a Hollywood or even European movie. One is enough permissiveness to allow the filming of nude actors going vigorously through the motions of sexual intercourse. The other that there is enough strictness and propriety so that the niceties of marital faithfulness and the awful pratfall of cuckoldry matter a great deal...
...Writing a novel is like writing an exam on which your whole life depends, every night for a year," poet and novelist May Sarton, inaugural speaker at the Open Forum, told an audience of over 450 last night at Cronkhite Graduate Center...
...next few years saw the peak of Sha Na Na's popularity. Their concerts--and the concept of a 50's revival--were still novel and seemed to generate a certain excitement in its audience, seemed to unleash energy that hadn't been tapped since the shaking and twisting...
Despite his frustrations--or perhaps because of them--Joffe seems to have been an exceptionally good sectionperson. Harry Gersh '80, Harvard's well-known 64-year-old student and a member of Joffe's section earlier this year, remembers Joffe's "refreshing... apprecation of the guts of the novel." Gary Hemphill, another student in that section, remembers Joffe as somebody who was "comfortable and competent in leading a section"--and also remembers him as the only section leader he has had who consistently quoted Bob Dylan to illustrate points about the literature he was discussing...