Word: fabricate
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...women contributing to the show entitled "Common Threads" hail from just as many ethnic communities in Cambridge. Their traditionally woven fabric arts are complemented by detailed oral histories describing the artists back grounds in Greek, Italian, Haitian, Black, Portuguese, and other neighborhoods...
...Common Threads" explores the meaning of fabric art in women's lives and highlights the rich texture of the city's social fabric," says Cindy Cohen, director of the Oral History Center...
...Fabric art gives me a sense of identity with other women who do the same thing around the world," says Susan Thompson, a Black artist whose specialty is quilting. "In most societies you find women being a little oppressed." Thompson explained in her Oral History, adding. "I feel their struggle and I feel their pain...
Like other revolutions of thought and arms, the new Nicaraguan order has set friend against friend, brother against brother. Four years after the overthrow of Dictator Anastasio Somoza Debayle, one remarkable family embodies the ideological divisions that tear at the fabric of the country: the old and respected Chamorro clan, a wealthy political and publishing dynasty that has given Nicaragua four Presidents and three generations of newspaper publishers. In their differing and passionately held points of view, the Chamorros are a microcosm of a nation at odds with itself...
...Ozick is careful never to allow the prose-poetry pattern to weaken the fabric of the novel. A device that might have seemed sloppy or contrived in the hands of a less skilled novelist, this language effectively heightens the sensual flavor of Ozick's work...