Word: factoids
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...some point during the afternoon, one of my roommates came out of her room and told me, mostly as an interesting factoid, that she had just passed out. She had been trying to get something out from under the leg of the bed, and 20 minutes later, she woke up wondering what she was doing lying on the floor--the strain of lifting the bed had been too much for her back, which she had injured earlier while rowing crew. Strangely, I had been sitting in the common room and hadn't even noticed a thud. Neither had our other...
...magazine's present owner, Mort Zuckerman. It's hard to avoid smugness when recounting one's triumphs, and the author does not always succeed. Manning got his start at the Binghamton (N.Y.) Press, which had been founded by the maker of an alcoholic elixir called Swamp Root. Interesting factoid, but it's a bit of a reach for a cutesy-poo title...
Although her handling of these facts makes Faludi an easy target of backlash, it should not be an excuse to dismiss her entire argument. "It's perfectly legitimate to point out errors in any book that has a factoid in every sentence. I'm bound to make mistakes," Faludi says. "But to dismiss the whole argument is not right. We should be more focused on how we overcome the backlash." As Ann Jones, an author and professor at Mount Holyoke, argues, "The big picture is there, and the big picture is accurate...