Word: elasticizing
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Time is elastic. That weekend seems either two days, or possibly 10 years, ago. On that evening, by chance, we were having dinner with a friend at her house on Martha's Vineyard. The sun had gone down. We ate dinner in the afterlight, looking out over Vineyard Sound. We...
Then, uniformly, she would add two inches to all measurements, and hope that I grew symmetrically. Of course, in the rapid-growth years of pre-adolescence, it was rare that I'd add inches in the arms, back and waist in the same proportions, and so the sweaters--while indisputably...
Memory is made of a weird elastic. World War II may be fresher now in the public mind than Vietnam. "Saving Private Ryan" brought it back, along with Tom Brokaw's book "The Greatest Generation." But in the next week, because of the anniversary, Vietnam will zoom close again in...
A product called the "Realdoll" is a surprisingly realistic rendition of the female form. Dubbed a blend of fantasy and reality, realdoll.com boasts that its doll bears "elastic flesh, an articulated skeleton and sexy features like no other love doll in the world." This doll is no flotation device. A...
Toward the end of the 19th century scientists believed they were close to a complete description of the universe. They imagined that space was filled everywhere by a continuous medium called the ether. Light rays and radio signals were waves in this ether just as sound is pressure waves in...