Word: fern
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...scenes revolve around the Livingston dinner table where Scooby, his two younger brothers, Brady, a football player worried about his school reputation, and Mikey, an inquisitive, petulant child dying for the recognition of his parents convene every evening. In one dinner scene, the topic of the Holocaust arises, and Fern Livingston (a damaged Julie Hagerty) comments to the kids that everyone is a survivor (you can see Solondz grinning). And that although none of their relatives were in the concentration camps, they did escape Germany, and thus the reason that the Livingstons are alive and eating dinner today. Using...
...Nayaran story. His Africa is as baleful as Conrad's and his London Waugh-like. Here, for example, is a man-about-town explaining how to ensure a successful dinner party: "I'm asking the poet and his wife only for the nosegay effect. A little bit of dead fern, to set the whole thing off." There are moments in this book-of-many-parts when the same could be said of Willie Chandran...
...generation, has championed the could-only-be-designed-with-computers blob. But his is not just a blob for its own sake. His Oh Chair is reminiscent of a pelvic girdle. His New Move glassware for German manufacturer Leonardo looks like a forest floor, with mushroom bowls, fern candelabras and lily-shaped vases...
...Absence a woman sits down at her typewriter to "create a story that possessed a granddaughter, a Boston fern, a golden apple, and a small blue cradle," only to discover that one of the keys, "a vowel, the very letter that attaches to the hungry self," won't work. The story about this deprivation unspools like a Mobius strip, since it too is told without the use of the letter...