Word: fabrication
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Slowly, Wilder traces out the threads in the fabric of Lansing's life and his near-redemption; of Ashley, rescued from his prison train by a mysterious band of unarmed intruders; of the Lansing and Ashley children, and their children, until they are all sewed into meaningful stitches in God's (or Wilder's) design...
...Beach, the Duchess of Windsor is packing along a pair of Givenchy's yellow knee socks to go with her Dior cullotte. What ever the length, bright, solid colors are in and applied dimensional texture is out; the pattern, if any, is now being knit right into the fabric...
...suicide and pounced upon an apparent suicide note that had been written some time before. Coroner Nicholas Chetta, however, labeled the death the result of a cerebral hemorrhage, most likely brought on by "overexcitement and hypertension." Indeed, Ferrie, nervous, sick, probably homosexual-with thick rug-like pieces of fabric replacing eyebrows, lost either by accident or disease-had known that Garrison was after him and, said his physician, had been "disturbed and depressed...
...velt muz men mer yoytse zayn vi far Got aleyn, says the Yiddish proverb. "The world is more exacting than God himself." It is a maxim that runs like a black thread through the fabric of American Jewish literature-from Henry Roth's Call It Sleep to Saul Bellow's Herzog. In Meyer Meyer, Author Helen Hudson follows the pattern by providing a translation of her own. In the secular cities of the earth, grace is granted not to those who reach up to God, but to those who reach...
...opposition papers and five Managua radio stations, searched homes and stores for arms and arrested 130 opposition leaders. Aguero himself ducked into hiding, then at week's end suddenly reappeared to announce that he still intended to run in the election, scheduled for next week. Against the Fabric. Aguero is up against more than a mere dictatorship; the Somozas are part of the country's basic fabric. When General Anastasio Somoza Sr. seized power in 1936 and launched his dynasty, Nicaragua was a typical down-at-the-peels banana republic. Though he dealt ruthlessly with critics, sometimes having...