Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...result is a novel comparative shopping list. General Mills, maker of Wheaties, for example, beats Quaker Oats. Reason: General Mills' "generous and innovative" programs for housing and minority business in Minneapolis. But Quaker Oats' Aunt Jemima pancakes stack up higher than the Downy Flake brand, because Downy's manufacturer, IC Industries, is a defense contractor...
Thus is joined a fictional battle involving real-life combatants. But Author Max Apple's second novel does not try to generate much suspense over the outcome. Even in the wackiest narrative, the existence of Disney World would be difficult to ignore or disprove. Instead, The Propheteers uses a supposed struggle in Orlando as a farfetched excuse to noodle imaginatively and affectionately with some American myths. What, specifically, might it feel like to be someone whose private, obsessive vision is miraculously rewarded with fortune and fame...
...almost free hand in decision making and in the investment of organization funds. Officials spoke glowingly of the day when party and economic posts would be filled democratically, with more than one candidate competing for every job. A Soviet editor announced that next year Boris Pasternak's 1957 novel, Doctor Zhivago, would be published in the Soviet Union for the first time. While those measures and the freeing of some dissidents gave reason to expect further liberalization, the crackdown on the refuseniks indicated that, as Ambassador Hartman observed, the Soviets have not yet changed their basic view of the relationship...
Equally full of contradictions and strange pairings is The Shining (Harvard Film Archive), a 1980 Stanley Kubrick adaptation of Stephen King's bestseller. The novel was an everyday tale of a haunted resort hotel, charting an ordinary man's descent into insanity. In Kubrick's version, the main character (Jack Nicholson) is completely unhinged from the very start of the movie, leaving out much of the book's terrifying psychological horror. Nicholson comes off as a cross between Manson and Carson, a connection made explicit by the film's most famous line, "Heeeere's Johnny...
Being one of the world's only surviving Discologians, I have decided to write a book about my passion, something of a historical novel--a North and South of music, a Saturday Night Fever of books. I had the vision for the book last week when I came home to the newest Rolling Stone. I flipped through it until I came to the sixth page. Then joyous news set my heart thumping: The Bee Gees are reuniting...