Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Babenco (adapting Manuel Puig's novel) attempts more than a sensitive study about the burgeoning of one off-beat friendship. He sets his sights on the giddy interplay between fantasy and fact, with the premise that escapism is indispensable to a psychologically sound existence...
...often a diagnosis that he has an intimacy problem. Like such other New York stage stalwarts as Mary Beth Hurt and Judith Ivey, he is well cast and directed by Frank Perry. They are figures who seem really to live in this landscape. Susan Isaacs' adaptation of her own novel is a socially observant example of an almost vanished genre, the comedy- mystery with blessedly discreet romantic overtones...
...fight against radical neo-Nazi hate groups. The drive was launched last year when authorities uncovered evidence (confirmed by the two witnesses heard before the trial recessed at week's end) that the Order had begun acting out a plot laid out in The Turner Diaries, a bizarre novel written by White Supremacist William Pierce under the pseudonym Andrew Macdonald. The book tells how a group called "The Order" robs banks and counterfeits money to finance a revolutionary movement against Jews, other minorities and the Government...
...offered short stories that the Italian author wrote more than two decades ago, when his talents were entertainingly restricted to earthly realities. Mr. Palomar, on the other hand, belongs to the later vintage of Calvino's fiction. Like such works as Cosmicomics (1968) and Invisible Cities (1974), this novel uses the recognizable world primarily as an excuse for the launching of antic metaphysics...
...travail of Western empiricism, in which every new discovery adds to the inexplicable. Or he might represent the last gasp of a class (European, intellectual, well-to-do) that is being smothered by the rise of the masses. None of the possible interpretations seems as interesting as the novel's deceptively plain but beguiling language. The wise reader of Mr. Palomar might best adopt a strategy that the hero formulates but fails to follow: "Perhaps the first rule I must impose on myself is this: stick to what...