Word: inventing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...before-for instance, when a staid and jewel-bedecked elderly woman, whom I had automatically dismissed as uninteresting, somehow began to recount a tale of wandering barefoot and starving through wartime Russia with her little boy, begging for food and shelter. And there is the vague memory-did I invent it ?-of hearing my own grandmother tell a story of hiding in an oven while the Cossacks rode through her village in a pogrom...
...Edith. Froemke reports that Edith seems to be reproducing her relationship with her mother in her relationship with Lois the same strains, the same resentments, are appearing. Now Edie complains that Lois is keeping her at Grey Gardens. If our chains didn't exist, we would have to invent them...
...part of the Ling empire, the company was known as LTV Electrosystems Inc. After its spin-off four years ago, it needed a new name, but a San Francisco company hired for the purpose could not invent one that pleased Chairman and President John W. Dixon, so Dixon in frustration decided on E-Systems. What does the letter stand for? Says Dixon: "Any word that starts with E and is good...
Since Bustos Domecq does not exist, Argentine Authors Jorge Luis Borges and Adolfo Bioy-Casares had to invent him. Why? Because Domecq is the pure incarnation of the middleman between a world gone culturally haywire and the uncomprehending mass of mankind. His function: telling people why they should admire nonsense. This inept critic is a figure of Chaplinesque pathos: a tastemaker totally lacking in taste, a perpetual target of the avant-garde's custard pies...
...house of Dior in the forefront of world fashion, has high praise for what he calls the Americans' "relaxed, sportive way of putting clothes together." However, like other Continental designers, he maintains that most innovations still come from Europe. Says he: "American designers work on ideas rather than invent them...