Word: fabricate
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...would have been invited to appear on the Today show to promote her turgid novel, Embrace the Serpent, if Dan Quayle were just another golf-loving lawyer from Indiana. Could it be pure coincidence that Greek businessman Basil Tsakos was paying Mark Hatfield's wife $55,000 for choosing fabric and paint chips for his office at the same time the Oregon Senator was urging federal support for Tsakos' $12 billion oil pipeline? Former Washington Mayor Marion Barry's wife Effie hardly got those fur coats and low-interest loans as just another "publicist" in a town where nearly everyone...
Dean of the College L. Fred Jewett '57, speaking to participants, called the forum an "important" step toward "improving the fabric of our common life...
...long black leather overcoat looked around nervously as he passed by, worried that a hair might be out of place. Guys stood in the bathroom with their cream-colored, curtain-fabric jackets, satin shirts, blow-dried hair, staring at themselves in the mirror like junior high kids prepping for the final plunge onto the dance floor. But these guys were in their fifties...
...barely know have shown me their extensive underwear collections, pointing out a favorite blue camisole and matching tap pants. Shopping trips invariably end up at the ubiquitous boutique, where people who question spending thirty dollars on a pair of jeans will gleefully spend forty on tasty little bits of fabric and lace...
Naturally, many will complain about the inconvenience of living in a Leverett or a Cabot and the extra steps to lunch these houses require. But the equal inconvenience that has been traditionally visited upon Adamsians goes beyond such petty geocentric squabbling to implicate the very fabric of what defines the fragmentation of experience that is culture, the anticommunity that is community, the fiber of that elusive animal that is the real Adamsian...