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...absurdity of what they have been doing and, as the common saying goes, come to their senses. When people in love come to their senses, they tend to orbit with added energy around each other and look more helplessly loopy and self-besotted. If romance were purely a figment, unsupported by any rational or sensible evidence, then surely most folks would be immune to it by now. Look around. It hasn't happened. Love is still...
...know students often have relationships with their professors, but come on--this guy wouldn't have a chance. After describing a series of relationships with much older men, Juliette Lewis murmers, "What am I doing with the mid-life crisis set?" Well, that's simple. She's the figment of the imagination of a middle-aged...
...revolve around whether the diaries are genuine; parts have already been authenticated and published. Instead, it centers on the paper's hiring of the pro-Nazi revisionist historian David Irving to handle the project. Among other things, Irving denies that the Holocaust happened, calling the Auschwitz gas chambers "a figment of British propaganda," and claims that Hitler was unfairly vilified for his role in World War II atrocities...
...players dismiss the cries of poverty as a bargaining ploy. In many cases, they charge, the red ink is a figment of creative accounting. A study by baseball accounting expert Roger Noll, professor of economics at Stanford University, found that the Pirates earned a profit of $4 million in 1990 but turned it into an $8 million loss by taking one-time write-offs, such as the expenses to pay released players. Players also point out that salary increases are slowing. Average pay is up 25% this year, vs. 45% in 1991. Next year salaries are projected to inch...
...celebrated war between the sexes, in other words, is not a figment of the imagination but derives from the evolutionary history of sex -- from that magic moment long, long ago when our unicellular ancestors entwined in immortal embrace...