Word: figment
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...famous Closet Scene that they play together ought to rend the heart, but fails to; Sawyer must share the blame here. The Ghost (David Byrd) quite correctly makes a visible appearance in the scene; for, however mad Hamlet may be elsewhere, the Ghost is not a figment of Hamlet's imagination. The Ghost's entrances and exits are well handled in all three of his scenes, but his speech is too fast and impassioned, and lacks dignity...
Bradley is certainly more than a figment of a good press agent. He connected on 11 of 22 shots; his passing and ball-handling were fantastic. In fact, they're probably too good--Tiger Coach Bill van Breda Kolff must wish that Bradley would shoot more and feed off less to his lacklustre teammates...
...with me," Frost exhorted Untermeyer, who obligingly struck out at old poetic practice by using Frost as an example of how things should be done. "There are times," Frost was generous to admit, "when I think I am merely the figment of Louis' imagination." But these early letters are notable mainly for Frost's continual cross references to his fellow writers-all of whom he took for enemies and deadly rivals...
Brooks's transition from muralist to ab stractionist was no abrupt abandonment of figure for figment. He spent three years as a U.S. Army combat artist in World War II in the Near East, earnestly carrying out official orders to paint "with the savagery of Goya, the romanticism of Delacroix, or. best of all, to follow your own inevitable star." Mustered out, the onetime commercial artist, muralist and teacher of lettering got swept into the new cult of abstract expressionism that was rocking the world in the postwar years, and has managed to turn the style into something important...
...then presents her husband with a cake bearing a single burning candle-"to celebrate the first time I've been unfaithful to you." They separate in New York, after roaming Harlem until dawn and finishing off the adventure in "a small, deserted bar on Broadway"-a foreign fictional figment which, as every bag-eyed nightclubber knows, does not exist...