He compares this to the vicarious delight moviegoers during the Depression felt at seeing fictional movie characters leading glamorous lives.
Charles Swann, fictional character, the leading figure in Marcel Proust's multivolume novel Remembrance of Things Past (1913 27; also published as In Search of Lost Time).
John le Carré, the leading fictional dramatizer of the clandestine struggle between the capitalist West and the Communist bloc, maintains a brisk trade in hugger-mugger, searching in each new novel for a fresh locale, a newly sore spot.
"As one of the world's leading fictional authors, I'm sure she can provide some good material for the no camp in the runup to September," she quipped.
In my last book, Carella is going to get shot, and Teddy is going to speak for the first time and ask, 'Steve, how could you?' " Correction: March 9 , 2001 Friday The Making Books column yesterday, about the fictional deaths of leading characters in popular serial novels, misstated the surname of a surviving character in Ed McBain's 87th Precinct series.
"Girl Play TV" fills the void of leading fictional black lesbian characters with masculine-centered or identified women.
But the real Most Impressive Democrat Of The Week goes to Howard Dean, for doing his own imitation of the fictional Howard Beale, and leading the Progressive blowback this week.
Musk — who believes we need to become a "spacefaring" race because we're going to throw away this planet like a used tissue or be fried by the sun in about a billion years — is the apparent model for the series' fictional visionary entrepreneur, leading an international coalition of space agencies and private industry.
And as the film's fictional depiction of events leading up to a small nuclear blast (in Baltimore) unfolded at a recent press screening, the audience sat riveted in silence.
In the introduction to "American Tabloid" (1995), his grisly fictional account of the events leading up to the assassination of John F. Kennedy, James Ellroy laid out his scabrous vision of America.
