Search Details

Word: novelizes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

Achebe also read from his latest novel, "Anthills of the Savannah," which is about the president of a fictional African country and the young poet who edits the official governmentnewspaper...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: African Author Urges Dialogue | 3/11/1988 | See Source »

Leonard Nimoy plans to shoot part of a Walt Disney film, "The Good Mother," in Cambridge beginning April 11. Based on the novel of the same title by city resident Sue Miller, the movie will star Diane Keaton and Jason Robards. William Blum, a spokesman for Nimoy, said it is due out next Thanksgiving...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Nimoy to Shoot Film In Harvard Sq. Area | 3/3/1988 | See Source »

...movie is a "fairly faithful" adaptation of the 1986 best-selling novel about a custody battle for a little girl, Clark said. She likened the film to "Kramer Vs. Kramer," a 1979 film with a similar theme...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Nimoy to Shoot Film In Harvard Sq. Area | 3/3/1988 | See Source »

Answer: none of the above, mercifully. William Brinkley, an ex-Navy man who made gentle fun of that service in Don't Go Near the Water, his popular 1956 novel (remember Glenn Ford in the movie?), is serious on this voyage. Instead of another hardware-heavy Tom Clancy naval thriller like The Hunt for Red October, Brinkley's tale has humanity, thoughtfulness and one inspired complication: women. On the Nathan James, not surprisingly nowadays in this man's Navy, 32 crew members are female. Sexual tension and just plain tension mount as the ship, food and fuel dwindling, scours...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Seapersons the Last Ship | 2/29/1988 | See Source »

John Updike' s latest novel sends a runaway wife to a phony ashram, where the blend of East and West, mysticism and sex is hilarious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Contents Page: February 29, 1988 | 2/29/1988 | See Source »

Previous | 103 | 104 | 105 | 106 | 107 | 108 | 109 | 110 | 111 | 112 | 113 | 114 | 115 | 116 | 117 | 118 | 119 | 120 | 121 | 122 | 123 | Next