Word: fictional
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...cards being played gives the “count” of the decks, and the higher the count, the better the chance of winning in a game of blackjack. Using this basic strategy, and disguising himself with pseudonyms such as Vincent Vega (a character from Pulp Fiction), Irvine helped his team earn up to $500,000 in a single weekend. Taking the stage after Irvine, Kaplan gave the details of his blackjack experience. Talking strictly about numbers, he broke down his early career into statistics. His MIT blackjack team set out with $89,000 and doubled their money...
...then took abortifacient drugs to induce bleeding. She said she repeated this over the course of nine months, documenting the process by video and preserving the blood. Hours after Shvarts’ press release, Yale University issued a statement calling her entire piece a “creative fiction.” The university alleges that before beginning her project, Shvarts had agreed to refrain from actually inseminating herself. In response, Shvarts defended her claim, calling the university’s statement “ultimately inaccurate” in an interview with the Yale Daily News. Discussion over...
...sacrificed to the furnace of Frisbee. This is what television told us, it is what our older siblings at state schools told us, and it is—to a large extent—what the Harvard viewbooks told us. When we arrived here to find it mostly a fiction, we wrote it off to the fact that Harvard must just not be like other places. Somewhere, against all evidence, there must be students living this sort of life...
...make some things that are a little bit unbelievable seem more believable. When you write about yourself or things that happen to you or things that might have happened to you, it’s very interesting what you can do with it. When you turn it into fiction you can keep some of the things that actually happened and then you can make things up, because sometimes in real life things don’t reach a dramatic point and other times things happen in real life that are so unbelievable and so full of coincidence that...
...Moses did write one book, though not a work of fiction. “Inside College: New Freedom, New Responsibility,” published in 1990, aims to aid students with the transition from high school to college, tackling such problems as choosing a major, deciding on classes, and balancing extracurricular life with school work...