Word: invented
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...experienced in a long time. "It was the worst I've seen in 18 years in politics," says Tony Coelho, chairman of the Democratic congressional campaign committee. One reason is that candidates have more money to hire consultants and admen who will search out, or if necessary invent, flaws in an opponent's record and then craft ads that will magnify and distort them...
...York State statute that gives anyone the right to protect her name and image from unauthorized commercial exploitation. That 1903 law, the most far-reaching in the U.S., does not proscribe an unauthorized but accurate biography. Thanks to the First Amendment, docudrama writers are probably entitled to invent some plausible dialogue and embellish events a bit. But at some point that free speech protection runs out. Says University of Michigan Law Professor Vincent Blasi: "When you dramatize for the sake of making her life more interesting than it is, then the courts are more likely...
...nameless killer is at large, and he has not only the cunning to leave few clues but the twisted ingenuity to invent a new form of murder. Even after he is caught and convicted, if he ever is, the terror that he inspired is likely to live on, and with altogether too good reason. There have been mass murders that were more brutal and claimed more victims. But there have been few if any so exquisitely attuned to the anonymity and impersonality of modern urban and suburban life. Paranoia is supposed to be an irrational fear...
This could be the entrance to the mysterious passages of Harvard lore. If there were no story of a Nazi spy eluding the F B I escaping through these-tunnels; you would have to invent one. Legend still insists that protestors in the angry riots of 1969 chased the administrators they blamed for Harvard's participation in the ROTC program into and through Harvard's subterranean maze. The year before, George Wallace had escaped from a pack of irate demonstrators by leaving Sanders Theater--where he was giving a speech--via the tunnels. And at one time, the wrestling team...
Nonsense, counters Sidney Glugover, who counsels elderly shoplifters in Florida's Broward County: "Feinberg and the other social scientists like to invent poetic theories about alienated subcultures. Economics is at the root of the crime. If you want a theory for what they're doing, you can call it 'dollar stretch...