Word: inventing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...speed 200 years ago," commented the Gazette. The Soviet weekly further noted that seat belts are nonexistent, because Soviet light industry has yet to devise a buckle that works. There are also hardly any lane markings on the roads, because the chemical industry has so far been unable to invent a paint that will not fade away as soon as it is applied...
...built it all with his hands-killing work that took 18 years-all because he wanted to live and invent as far from civilization as he could. To survive, he operated the place as a dude ranch in the summer...
...idea, what a great thing to see over the top of the car instead of having to see through all those heads and seats and blind spots inside the car. I thought, 'Gee whiz, Karl, here's opportunity knocking at the back door, success. Invent over-the-top rear vision and make money fast...
When a country of considerable scenic beauty is plagued by a chronic shortage of foreign exchange funds, the standard solution is to build a few luxury hotels, print some brochures advertising the virgin beaches and rugged mountains, and brace for the flood of tourists. Leave it to Albania to invent a new wrinkle that is absolutely guaranteed to keep the tourists away in droves...
...left with the freedom to invent ourselves, because there is little left in this society worth imitating. But by rejecting the pre-programmed lives that the kindergarten-through-college channeling system provides, we also have the necessity of creating our own lives. The ones that have been planned for us, have already been lived, and there is no sense for us to follow their futile path, carrying our cog's world of American culture to the scrap heap. In exchange for having to live through some of the greatest horrors the world has ever seen, we are left...