He directed the films Zapata: The Dream of a Hero, Like Water for Chocolate ( adapted from the novel written by his ex-wife Laura Esquivel ), A Walk in the Clouds with Keanu Reeves and Anthony Quinn, and the Hallmark Hall of Fame production A Painted House, adapted from the John Grisham novel of the same name.

Men Like Gods ( 1923 ) is also a utopian novel.

Now recognized as a major talent, Altman had critical breakthroughs with McCabe & Mrs. Miller ( 1971 ), known for its gritty portrayal of the American frontier ; The Long Goodbye ( 1973 ), a remake of a Raymond Chandler novel ; Thieves Like Us ( 1974 ), and Nashville ( 1975 ).

* Rat Korga, major character in Samuel R. Delany's science fiction novel Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand, voluntarily opts for psychosurgery to make him content to be a slave.

One critic argues that it is Kafka ’ s influence that can be seen most strongly in the novel: “ Like Kafka ’ s heroes, Yossarian is riddled with anxiety and caught in an inexorable nightmare – in his case created by Colonel Cathcart and the inevitability of him raising the number of missions he has to fly .”

" In Craig Thompson's graphic novel Blankets the chapter seven is called " Just Like Heaven ".

The Stars, Like Dust was originally serialised under the title Tyrann in Galaxy Science Fiction from January to March 1951, and was published as a novel by Doubleday later that year.

The first paperback edition was an Ace Books double novel along with Roger Dee's An Earth Gone Mad ; The Stars, Like Dust was retitled The Rebellious Stars for this edition without Asimov's consent.

Like the other books in the series, West End Games created for this novel a role-playing game sourcebook that expanded on Zahn's characters, locations, weapons, and other facts.

Like many of Garner's books, the novel is set in the real landscape of Cheshire, in this case focused around Alderley Edge, and features the fictional characters interacting at genuine sites, such as the sandstone escarpment of the Edge, the Wizard's Well, the open mine pits, and the Beacon.

); the campus novel, with a lot of intellectual discussion and a lot of sex going on ( in particular Changing Places ); pastiche ( the narrative technique itself and, in particular, the essays written by Helen Reed's students on " What Is It Like to Be a Bat ?").

Just Like That ( 1994 ) is a novel by Lily Brett about Holocaust survivors in the United States.

" Like the novel, A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin was also a best-seller.

* The protagonist ( Gnossos Pappadopoulis ) in Richard Fariña's 1966 novel Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me believes his best friend to be named Heffalump for the majority of the novel, although Gnossos discovers in Cuba that Heffalump's birth name was Abraham Jackson White.

Daniel Clowes ' graphic novel " Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron " is an example of stream of consciousness writing in cartoon-form.

Like much of Dickens ' late fiction, this novel has seen many reversals of critical fortune.

* Leif Enger, author of the best-selling novel Peace Like a River was born and raised in Osakis.

Like Arthur Seaton, the anti-hero of his first novel Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, his father worked at the Raleigh Bicycle Company factory.

Bob Dylan's song " Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues " alludes to the novel.

And John Duttine played David Powlett-Jones in BBC TV's To Serve Them All My Days ( 1980 ), adapted by Andrew Davies from the eponymous novel and as Archie Carver in London Weekend Television's People Like Us ( 1977 ), adapted from the Avenue novels.

Like its predecessor, Au Bonheur des Dames focuses on Octave Mouret ( b. 1840 ), who at the end of the previous novel married Caroline Hédouin, the owner of a small silk shop.

Like many of Card's works, the novel is an expansion of a short story, his " Lost Boys ", which can be found in his short story compilation Maps in a Mirror.

Like the peptidoglycan found in bacterial cell walls, pseudopeptidoglycan consists of polymer chains of glycan cross-linked by short peptide connections.

Like canids, hyenas have short, blunt, non-retractable claws.

He also appeared with Joan Blondell and Ruth Etting in a Vitaphone short, Broadway's Like That ( 1930 ) which was re-discovered in 1963.

Like most salamanders, they have short legs with four toes on the front legs and five on their back appendages, and their tails are keeled to propel them through water.

Like many large dog breeds, Irish Wolfhounds have a relatively short lifespan.

Like most other Proteaceae, P. cynaroides has proteoid roots, roots with dense clusters of short lateral rootlets that form a mat in the soil just below the leaf litter.

It became a kind of new pop formula and, within a short while, " Smells Like Teen Spirit " was charging up the charts and even the members of Nirvana said later that it sounded for all the world like a Pixies song.

* In " Hills Like White Elephants ", a short story by Ernest Hemingway, an unborn child is viewed as a white elephant.

Like many other members of the genus Bacillus, Bacillus anthracis can form dormant endospores ( often referred to as " spores " for short, but not to be confused with fungal spores ) that are able to survive in harsh conditions for decades or even centuries.

His cautionary fables include " The Beautiful People " ( 1952 ), a futuristic short story about a rebellious adolescent girl who lives in a largely conformist society in which people obligatorily alter their physical appearance ( adapted as an episode of The Twilight Zone: " Number 12 Looks Just Like You "), and " Free Dirt " ( 1955 ), about a frugally gluttonous man who gorges on his entire vegetable harvest, but instead dies from having consumed the magical soil he used to grow it.

Like sparrows, the estrildid finches are small, gregarious and often colonial seed-eaters with short, thick, but pointed bills.

* Mighty Like a Moose ( 1926 short )

Like Supergirl, Mary Marvel was a teen-age female version of an adult male superhero, wearing a costume that was identical to the older character's other than substituting a short skirt for tight trousers.

He wrote about this world in novels and short stories, including Times Like These ( 1936 ) which explores the life of a working-class family during the 1926 miners ' strike.

Like Persian cats, the Himalayan cat tends to have a round ( cobby ) body with short legs, which makes it harder for them to jump as high as other cats do.

In the 1978 animated short " Face Like a Frog ", by Sally Cruikshank, the band's song " Don't Go in the Basement " is credited to The Mystic Knights.

Like most genital piercings, these piercings have relatively short healing times, due to the amount of blood flow to the area.

Like other similar projectiles made from plastic, wax, and wood, rubber bullets may be used for short range practice and animal control, but are most commonly associated with use in riot control and to disperse protests.

Pebble in the Sky was also included in a number of omnibuses: first in 1952 in Triangle along with the others in the Empire series ( The Stars, Like Dust and The Currents of Space which had only been published earlier that year ), in 1978 in The Far Ends of Time and Earth along with The End of Eternity and the short story collection Earth Is Room Enough, and again with the Empire series novels in 2002 as The Empire Novels.

Like Zhuang, Zhong may also be the short form of Buzhuang, which Zhuang people use to refer to themselves, as the pronunciation of Zhong and Zhuang is similar, and Zhong was once a variant form of Zhuang in the Han Chinese historical books.

Like all grebes, the Red-necked is an expert swimmer ; it uses its feet for propulsion underwater, and steers by rotating its legs, since its tail is too short for this purpose.

Like the unrelated swifts and nightjars, which hunt in a similar way, they have short bills, but strong jaws and a wide gape.

Like all assembly languages, it uses short mnemonics to represent the fundamental instructions that the CPU in a computer can understand and follow.

Like all members of the family they are slender, short necked birds with long tails, long slender legs with elongated ( in some cases very elongated ) hind claws.