Word: fragmentism
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...faculty wife here, too, years back. Coming back here, I'm very conscious of the way the careers of men are built on bright and brilliant wives who do everything for them. The parties, the contacts, typing their manuscripts, doing their research... So the women fragment their own lives and throw away careers they could have had. It's not just that women aren't being hired at universities. There are also those charmingly exploited women, and husbands' careers built on their backs...
...fascinating fragment of testimony in the Warsaw trial established that there is at least some spirit of cooperation between Polish officialdom and prostitutes working the Europejski. A redhead testified that last year one of the accused doormen refused to let a group of harlots into the hotel unless each paid him 100 zloties ($5). She said that one of the girls got angry and made a telephone call. "Then a lady from the Interior Ministry [which runs the Polish secret police] came over to the hotel and took care of everything," the girl said. "Did the doorman...
...fragment of a story does concentrate on the perils caused by widening a highway by a small town, but the subject there is arbitrariness, not tension; another makes some peripheral play about in-flight motion pictures. But because Cheever and his creations are mainly so tradition-bound, his chronicles of disorder and lack of faith make the needs for faith and order cry out even louder. And Cheever is such a consistently honest and witty writer, carefully building up his characters through dialogue and their own partial vision of the world, and then thrusting them up against unexpected circumstance, that...
...expects to be as rich as Picasso. Not even the conspicuous earners of the past, like Rubens or Titian, made that kind of money. Thus out of the production of one year, 1969-70, he exhibited 167 oils and 45 drawings; in all, the gross market value of that fragment of his output was probably about $15 million, and the value of Picasso's whole estate has been guessed at $750 million or more. Although Picasso had long since parted with it, his Nude Woman of 1910 recently fetched a reported $1.1 million from the National Gallery. That...
...thought of wine and grinned to herself. The world is a broken Ripple bottle. Yes, yes, a ripped apart Ripple bottle. Some still glistening fragment attracted her eye and absorbed her. Timeless. Rhythm of timelessness; timeless ocean waves. Her endless drift of unconcerned thinking. A sailing without a goal, or known beginning. A hum started out of her sea-faring self; a song of bright, free ships...