Word: fictionalized
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...into himself. Can he return? This is a question whose application here can be debated and debunked by those familiar with the work of Dr. John Lilly, the behavioral scientist whose use of tank therapy prefigured Eddie's. But most moviegoers will be enthralled by the fiction in this dazzling piece of science fiction...
...companies are naturally unhappy about once again being cast in the role of the heavy. Mobil Oil lawyers have met privately with MGM officials to object. Says a Mobil spokesman: "This is not even a good piece of fiction." The clear winner from the film is Marlon Brando, who received a reported $250,000 a day for ten days' work. That is a real formula for making money...
Kundera's fiction flirts with that border without crossing it. His condemnation of modern life is broad, but his sympathy for those who create and suffer it is deep This work is indeed what its title states and something more: a book of mourning and remembrance...
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Strouse occasionally indulges in unnecessarily long asides about the lives and works of Alice's brothers. She spends a good deal of space discussing William's ailments, which faintly resembled those of his sister, and she frequently looks for parallels between Alice and the characters in Henry's fiction. Her digressions are often interesting, and may be unavoidable since far more information survives about the brothers. Still, they seem needlessly detailed in a biography about their sister. One gets the faint impression on occasion that Strouse became slightly bored with Alice's nervous attacks, and would have preferred to continue...