Word: felted
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...author of two books that were published as memoirs--A Million Little Pieces and My Friend Leonard--but turned out to be not especially factually accurate. I'm not that upset about it, mostly because I didn't think the books were that great in the first place. They felt crude and overwrought and underthought to me, and maybe as if Frey were just a little too proud of what a thorough mess he'd made of his life. Yes, he violated the unwritten contract between writer and reader. I wouldn't blame anybody for being...
...married? What are families for?” he asks his readers. “What was new about these questions was that they didn’t have answers, or that the answers they did have were so multiple and contingent and arbitrary that they never really felt like answers...
Cambridge resident Peter Schweich, however, said he felt the decision was “extremely good...
...museum, which once housed the world's largest collection of Mesopotamian antiquities, was looted and ransacked beyond recognition. The event saw thousands of artifacts lost to international smuggling. For Iraqis the museum had been a showcase of their country's 7,000-year old heritage and its fate was felt with great bitterness...
Indeed the museum's recovery may take a long time, and few who witnessed the looting have forgotten the frustration they felt as Iraq's riches were plundered. Five years after that catastophe, the centerpiece of Iraqi historical glory remains closed to the public. When it will reopen remains unknown. The larger stone pieces that never escaped the museum walls because of their weight remain in the shadows where they were left, some of them cracked from the failed efforts of looters to chip away chunks. But in one of the 27 halls, where intricately carved Sumerian wall panels depicting...