Word: strangers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Presumably, novelists turned to fiction in the first place as an imaginative way to conjure up reality, for, as the South African novelist Nadine Gordimer says, "The facts are always less than what really happened." But many novelists now find truth not only stranger than fiction but easier to write; it takes less effort to embellish a character the reader already knows than to create a new character in the round...
...July a California Court of Appeal unanimously overturned the conviction of a 32-year-old Los Angeles salesman in the rape of a 23-year-old waitress-hitchhiker. To help explain the decision, Justice Lynn Compton wrote that a woman who enters a stranger's car "advertises that she has less concern for the consequences than the average female." In response, Attorney Gloria Allred, a National Organization for Women coordinator, claimed the judge was ignoring "the fact that rape is an act of violence, not of sex." University of Southern California Law Professor Stephen Morse called Compton...
...into her face, then passed. She said he held his right arm down stiffly, as though he were carrying something partly up his sleeve. Five minutes later she heard shots and the wail of a car horn. Next day, learning of the double shooting, she was certain the passing stranger had been the killer. When detectives questioned her, she recalled another vital detail: she had seen a cop tagging a cream-colored car parked illegally near a fire hydrant one block from the murder site...
That proposal of his now seems too radical to Brinkley, but Arledge, no stranger to the artifices of show business, is thinking along the same lines. Anchorman Brinkley, who has collected $2 million dollars or more from NBC since making that speech, no longer talks about the vanishing anchorman. Wry as ever about his job, Brinkley now concedes that a familiar face is needed as a "switching agent," but he deplores those elaborate anchorman desks that to him look like airline ticket counters. Not to worry. Now that Brinkley is returning to Washington, from a New York he has never...
While he has appeared on the tube numerous times, and had his own special last May, Pryor has always been uneasy before the television camera. TV is no stranger to vulgarity, but it cannot tolerate obscenity. When he does a TV stint, Pryor must censor himself as he did in the years before his Las Vegas awakening. His friends, who think he should concentrate on movies, advised him against committing himself to the NBC series. Last spring Pryor tried to break his contract, or at least reduce his projected schedule. NBC, however, refused to let him out. Though he makes...