Word: inventing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When she sees the woman give birth in pain, Buddy tells her that the mother has received a drug to make her forget her suffering. Esther reacts with further horror: "I thought it sounded just like the sort of drug a man would invent. Here was a woman in terrible pain, obviously feeling every bit of it or she wouldn't groan like that, and she would go straight home and start another baby, because the drug would make her forget how bad the pain had been, when all the time, in some secret part of her, that long, blind...
...grain of sand serves an oyster. It acts as an irritant to which they return again and again, a stimulus to the creation of an entire world--a world constructed from materials extracted painfully from within themselves. Through letters supposedly written to and by Mariana, they invent a cast of characters and unfold a baroque plot full of passion and intrigue. Interspersed with these letters are vignettes of other Marianas. Marias and Maria Anas, all trapped in some kind of "convent"--of marriage, of motherhood, of passion--and all somehow seduced and abandoned. And scattered throughout are poems and letters...
Feral Magnetism. As the Frenchman descended from hero to convict, the Hungarian rose from dilettante to provocateur. Herzl did not invent the idea of a Jewish state-the appeal of Return to Jerusalem is, after all, as ancient as the Diaspora. But Herzl alone took it from vision to plan to practicality. On the way he assumed the countenance and the stature of a prophet, sweeping all objections from his path. A feral magnetism began to animate his face and conversation. Philosopher Martin Buber was later to recall him as "a statue without error or mistake, a countenance lit with...
They will have us all utterly bored with the whole thing by the time anybody is a nominee and for the post-convention campaign will have to invent unimportant new "issues" to replace the dead horses they will have been beating all those months...
...rages puts their son in the hospital, she is determined to divorce him. But his very rich, authoritatively lunatic father is equally determined that she will not obtain custody of the child. The old man hires a shifty young man (Jean-Pierre Cassel) either to discover or to invent evidence of moral turpitude that would cause a court to refuse the mother custody...