Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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THOMAS CLAYTON WOLFE received the first copy of his first novel, Look Homeward, Angel, on his 29th birthday. In it, he developed a theme: "that men are strangers, that they are lonely and forsaken, that they are in exile on this earth, that they are born, live and die alone...
That, in essence, is the plot of The Thanatos Syndrome, but Percy has done more here than simply repeat himself. The theme may be familiar, but the variations decidedly are not. For one thing, this novel embodies Percy's most detailed, explicit attack on contemporary materialism and science. For another, the philosophical warfare has been artfully disguised as a thriller...
...good reason, perhaps, but many implicit ones, and all present in the language of this novel. The time is coming, Percy insists through his hero, when people can choose to be less than themselves, through technology, or rediscover their spiritual amplitudes, for good or ill. To be fully conscious, even of the worst, seems preferable. Tom describes a sunfish caught in a local bayou: "The colors will fade in minutes, but for now the fish looks both perfectly alive yet metallic, handwrought in Byzantium and bejeweled beyond price, all the more amazing to have come perfect from the muck...
...promoting their films, independents avoid the mass-market techniques employed by major studios. Instead, they aim for bargain exposure to specific audiences. A Room with a View, for example, based on the E.M. Forster novel, was screened last year for a Chicago convention of English teachers, who were encouraged to use the film as a study aid for their students. Waiting for the Moon, a new film about Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas starring Linda Hunt, will be screened for feminist groups and advertised in gay newspapers...
...producers are trying to lure women by making hard-core imitations of soap operas like The Young and the Restless or Harlequin romances. Says Bill Margold of West Hollywood, a longtime performer in and director of porno films: "The industry is trying to capture the soap opera, the romance novel. We're trying to capture admiration for the female." Says Money: "On network soap operas you get above-the-beltline love and guess the rest. On videos you get below the beltline but a romantic story line as well...