Novelist Norman Mailer pursued his obsession with the questions of good and evil by publishing a fascinating fictional study of the childhood of Adolf Hitler.
Because "Anna Karenina" is the greatest of all fictional studies of adultery, it's not surprising that a few choreographers have tried their hands at it: Maya Plisetskaya in 1968, André Prokovsky in 1979, Boris Eifman in 2005 and now Mr. Ratmansky.
Stephen King once again battered at the gates of literary respectability with his highly readable psychological thriller Lisey's Story, while John Updike's crown slipped ever so slightly when he came out with Terrorist, the fictional study of a young convert to Islam who carries his jihad to northern New Jersey; the book apparently sold well, however.
Though this is a fictional case study, technical aspects such as integration methods and nonfunctional requirement specification are designed to closely mimic real-world scenarios.
A fictional case study shows how a heart attack patient could be cared for in this new system, starting with wireless monitors that hes wearing when his heart rate speeds up; through a visit with a nurse who talks to specialists using an iPad and FaceTime; to improved versions of the bar-code-reading devices at Truman.
We do know that Christie blatantly lied about the closures, insisting that they were part of a fictional "traffic study".
One of the great fictional studies of slavery and its scars, Beloved is also a sublime literary ghost story: a meditation on the ways in which individuals and communities - an entire nation - can be haunted by the violence and injustice of the past.
Yet as Mukherjee notes, by early 2000, the procedure was discovered to have been supported by fictional studies.
The show is steeped in that gushing awe that tends to afflict fictional studies of famous lives in proximity (such as Alan Rudolph movies like "The Moderns"), a phenomenon I identify with excited sentences along the lines of, "Look, isn't that Ernest Hemingway standing at the bar?" (Woody Allen made this sensibility charming in "Midnight in Paris," but that's an exception).
