Word: figments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...twice-married, twice-divorced blonde built along dinner-at-Schrafft's lines, Bonnie Golightly, 39, is a practicing novelist (The Wild One) and ex-Greenwich Village bookstore owner. Far from being "a figment of Truman Capote's so-called imagination,'' Bonnie claims. Capote's colorful heroine was constructed from details about Bonnie gleaned by Capote ("a creative reporter") from "mutual friends...
...three days, and during that time a 13-year-old girl is found bruised and dead at the foot of a seaside cliff. All the evidence points to Mathias, but always there seems the faint chance that his part in the crime is merely a psychopath's figment...
Sergeant Bunt is by far the most endearing and best drawn character in this scandalous novel-perhaps because he is a figment of Author Menen's vivid, jocular imagination. Most of the other characters in The Abode of Love have not this advantage. They are real, and so are most of the activities around which Menen builds this rococo piece of history told "in the form of a novel." The Rev. Henry James Prince (who takes the scabrous Bunt under his wing and is the principal character) was a flesh-and-blood renegade clergyman. In the 18403 Prince founded...
...understand perfectly the American fear of militant Communism and of possible Chinese aggression throughout Asia," said Attlee, as if the Chinese invasion of North Korea were a figment of American imagination. But, he added in the most astonishing remark of the day, "here is a revolutionary government which is undoubtedly supported by the mass of the people . . . The Communists have offered China Nationalism and the land...
Stassen's testimony was refuted yesterday when State Department officials called the points "a figment of his imagination...