Word: built
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Chinese mission, smiled broadly as he shook hands with the chief Soviet negotiator, Deputy Foreign Minister Leonid llyichev. Wang expressed hope for "positive results" and, reviving an old bromide from the fraternal era before the Sino-Soviet schism began in 1959, declared that "the Chinese and Soviet people have built and developed a profound friendship over long years of common revolutionary struggle...
...small cars. We have some big cars, but really our problem is that we haven't built enough gas guzzlers. That is where the money is, for the same reason that in a meat market there is a bigger margin on steak than on hamburger...
...through Italy, the wealthy mother and the spoiled boy carry on a tortured relationship that might well shock the cast of La Dolce Vita. Obscene screaming matches and violent brawls quickly give way to grueling sequences featuring heroin injection and masturbatory sex. The film's dramatic structure is built around the secrets the characters keep from each other: there is more than one Oedipal affair in Luna...
This is easily the year's most preposterous movie premise, requiring one to accept many items on faith: that Wells did not merely imagine the Time Machine but actually built it in his basement; that since it operates in the fourth dimension it can be in two different times and places simultaneously so both hero and villain can use it; and, most important, that a film involving history's most notorious sex criminal can turn out to be an entertainment of considerable wit, charm and, of all things, romantic sweetness...
What happened? The first clue appears on the title page, where the word LETTERS is built up from a welter of small letters that, when properly viewed, spell the following: "an old time epistolary novel by seven fictitious drolls & dreamers each of which imagines himself actual." Letters made up of letters, fiction made up of fictions, Chinese boxes diminishing to emptiness. Such diminution is what the novel is about. The 772 pages that follow thus constitute a stunningly obsessive exercise in inflatio ad absurdum...