Word: fabricate
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...North Dakota saying," explains Boyd Christenson, a radio talk-show host in Fargo: "When a little animal has been on the teat for a long time, it's tough to be weaned." In general, Fargoans refuse to wait passively for the budget cuts to rip their social fabric. In early March, 10 Fargo churches, along with the Salvation Army, created a Communal Needs fund to help locals who touch bottom. The money will be doled out to individuals who need emergency help with rent, transportation or food. There is not much to go around: donations now total a modest...
Chinos are undoubtedly convenient. That extra fabric in the pleats hides any number of physical abnormalities. It's neither creative nor solution-oriented to wear the same style from the days of your six-pack to the days of your beer-gut. It's just plain lazy. Although an informercial currently in heavy rotation does offer a wrinkle and stain-free pair of those classic chinos, (for the low low price of $29.95!) one should remember that trousers are not wall-to-wall carpeting...
...gray polyester pants seemed to cling to one for dear life, as if the wearer were their last chance for redemption. There was also the natty dark blue polyester vest, which made me look like a Christmas pudding, and the rakish gray clip-on tie made from some fabric whose origins I've yet to divine. Finally, honor of honors, I also had my very own name...
...your childhood traumas have been erased, along with most of your personality." "His Immortal Logness," Pomme Fritz's last and shortest track, is in many ways the best, combining the sound of a German accordion playing what sounds like a distended techno polka with a richly layered sonic fabric. It is ironic, irreverent and immensely enjoyable...
...York, the Chinese designer Han Feng, whose skill is also in color and fabric, showed her most sophisticated collection yet, and the Vietnamese Vivienne Tam floated some graceful, filmy cocktail dresses in black and white. Both offerings were abbreviated compared with the 100-outfit extravaganza launched by de la Renta, but collections like these are among the small pleasures of following fashion. Feng and Tam stick strictly to what their fabrics tell them and succeed in creating highly individual silhouettes...