Word: concoction
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Holub's most ascerbic essays lambast this spurious Soviet science, in which party-approved researchers concoct absurd theories to please their superiors. In their best form, these essays take the form of veiled political satire, an art perfected by the Czechs...
...book's phenomenal popularity is not unwarranted. It's a fantastic read, both for its easygoing, anecdotal style and its matchless cast of characters. No effort is made to concoct a novelistic plot line, although the book centers itself on the murder trial of Jim Williams, a wealthy art collector who shoots his homosexual lover, a violent young hustler, in what he claims is self-defense...
Samoan healers concoct poultices and infusions from the leaves, bark and roots of local plants, using them for conditions that range from high fever to appendicitis. Among them are root of 'Ago (Curcuma longa) for rashes, leaves of the kuava tree (Psidium guajava) for diarrhea, and the bark of vavae (Ceiba pentandra) for asthma. Virtually all the healers are women who learned their art from their mothers, who in turn learned it from their mothers. Now knowledge of the recipes and their administration, even the location of the plants in the forests, is endangered as more and more daughters forgo...
...embittered. In Diana he picked up the jewel both prized and tossed aside by the English elite, a diamond with an edge that could cut. Snaring her, and perhaps even installing her in the former residence of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor (which al Fayed holds), would simultaneously concoct an alternative monarchy and remind the real one of a time when it had faltered...
...next scene opens with Bo breaking into Ata's apartment (again), this time just to say hello. She is passing through after robbing another apartment in Ata's building. The two concoct a plan to rob Ata's estranged husband. They conduct the robbery with the help of Robbie (Kevin LaVelle), one of Bo's partners in crime. Soon after, Ata becomes "sexually liberated" and decides to forsake her former life for a life of crime...