When their 10-year reunion is approaching, they come up with a fake story to impress their old classmates: claiming that they invented Post-its (again, much more realistic before the days of Instagram and LinkedIn). Romy and Michelle remains such a beloved cult classic for how hilarious ...
Two of Calvino’s first fictional works were inspired by his participation in the Italian Resistance: the NeorealisticnovelIl sentiero dei nidi di ragno(1947;The Path to the Nest of Spiders), which views the Resistance through the experiences of an adolescent as helpless in the midst of events...
stories, written originally in Yiddish. (See alsoYiddish literature.) They evolved from fantastic tales of demons and angels to realistic fictions set inNew York City’sUpper West Side, often dealing with the haunted lives of Holocaust survivors. These works showed him to be one of the great ...
Davies was realistic about the consequences of his artistic choices. In his preface to The Collected Stories, he wrote that, “Short stories are a luxury which only those writers who fall in love with them can afford to cultivate.” Yet he was able to keep publishing steadily through a care...
What I appreciate about William H. Coles writing is that he gave the stories realistic endings. I can’t deny that there were times where I felt frustrated by how the stories ended because I thought it was unfair. However, life isn’t fair. Things do not always end up the ...
Critics Consensus: Reid gives a fearless, realistic performance in depicting an older woman's sexual blossoming. Synopsis: May (Anne Reid) is a middle-aged grandmother who lives in Northern England with her husband, Toots (Peter Vaughan). When Toots... [More] Starring: Anne Reid, Daniel...
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New on DVD: IMAX Under the Sea To fully explore the undersea world of exotic locales like New Guinea, Indonesia, and the Great Barrier Reef, you could put on scuba gear and hop into the water. Or for the next closest thing, there’s “IMAX Under the Sea”, which besides keeping you...
fictional reality or in the dream world of a character and the sustained oscillation between realistic and fantastic scripts; and it analyses the startling reversal of the wonted relationship of figure and ground in Carey's stories and the blending of provocative but disparate images which cannot ...
It is a well thought out story that the author really has executed so well. There is a balance that felt right about it, giving it a realistic feel to it as in everyday life, and it felt very personal. It has elements of dark and light as the journey with Daniel progresses, but ab...