Word: defunction
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...fairy tales Sheppard found them quite different from the majority of children's stories. "Most books published since 1950," he says, "seem to have been written by moonlighting matchbook copywriters and have all the cultural significance of a between-meals snack." After four years with the now defunct New York Herald Tribune, first as a literary editor and then as managing editor of the Book Week supplement, Sheppard joined TIME in 1967. Today he samples as many as 30 books per week before choosing the ones he will review. "This week's story is partly a news story...
Henri Gault and Christian Millau have much in common. Both are 44-year-old Sunday cooks and year-round gourmets-curiously slight of paunch considering their present trade-who once worked as reporters on the now defunct Paris Presse. The solidest bond between the two is the joy they share in debunking the culinary canons of their fellow Frenchmen. They condone serving red wine with fish, accept Israelite gras as only "slightly inferior" to the product of Strasbourg and advise housewives to shorten the cooking hours of those long, loving, simmering stews. They have even dared to question butter...
Nevertheless, what a person was or thought or did thirty years ago is past and dead, even if that person is physically alive...feeling a deep familial piety for his defunct historical self, he indulges in ancestor worship, tidies up embarrassing disorders of his dead past, reverently conceals his own skeleton in a hidden closet...no writer enjoys total recall, every recollection is suspect...
...electricity came along to revolutionize the game. In 1935 pinball was introduced to the anti-tilt device and the solenoid-powered bumper units, essentials to the modern game. 1937 was a banner year as well, as the now defunct Western Electric and Supply company added the allure of free games. The final major invention to hit the pinball scene came as recently as 1947, when the late Harry Mas introduced the solenoid-activated power flipper...
...Corfam the only supposedly defunct leather substitute to be resurrected. Production rights to Jentra, a former Corfam rival that was developed by Tenneco and then shelved, have recently been sold to a U.S.-Japanese combine, which is manufacturing it in Moonachie, N.J. Clarino, exported by Japan's Marubeni Corp., the world's largest manufacturer of poromerics, fizzled under the sponsorship of an American distributor in the '60s, but is now being successfully marketed in the U.S. by a Marubeni subsidiary...