Word: inventing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Haven, Boston and New York State, sums up the case: "If land use were mapped out in advance, there would be no speculative value on land. If development were ordered, there would be plenty of room for everyone to live properly. It isn't that we have to invent a process. We just need to commit ourselves...
...warmed by the Gulf Stream, and animals have spacious cages with privacy when they want it. The prize whiteeared pheasants from Peking strut amid 100 varieties of flora from their native China. The zoo's keepers (including four who have B.Sc. degrees and one with a Ph.D.) invent projects to prevent the animals from becoming bored...
Ride down the road with him and he may bet you $100 that you would not jump out of the car and turn a quick somersault. Hole up in a hotel room with him and he will invent a betting game that involves tossing tennis balls over a curtain rod. Ask him to play golf with a tennis racket and he will not only oblige but win. Show up at one of his tennis matches and he may line you up for a side bet. Want to play him yourself? What kind of handicap do you want? A wet Bulgarian...
...first niellist to substitute wet ink for hard paste, to press a sheet of paper onto the metal and so invent the copperplate engraving, seems to have been a Florentine goldsmith named Maso Finiguerra (1426-64). The technique suited its period. It demanded tough, precise outline drawing and responded to absolute clarity of form. Hence it was ideal for a precisionist like Mantegna, whose few engravings are almost mineral in their sharpness. Not even the drapery on his figures was soft; with deep cuts and cracking angles, it might have been carved from obsidian...
...when the Twentieth learns from her lips that she has, yes, posed in the nude, a novelist has the right to invent the following dialogue...