Word: inventing
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...lunar base has always been that the moon is rich in helium-3, an isotope of common helium that could serve as fuel in eventual fusion reactors. Astronauts could, in theory, mine the stuff and ship it back to Earth. That's fine, but first we have to, well, invent the reactor. What's more, as the beleaguered crews aboard the International Space Station have discovered, sometimes just maintaining your ship can take all your time and the mission itself - scientific research, mining - gets...
...Sunday still have no representation in the legislature. "I want a change, above all for my son," said Fabiola Pereira, a hairstylist, after voting for Rosales in the upper-middle-class Caracas neighborhood of Altamira. "If Chavez takes more power we don't know what else he'll invent. It scares me. Anything can happen in six years...
...Altman certainly didn't invent overlapping dialogue; that goes back to the earliest days of talking pictures, when such directors as Frank Capra, Howard Hawks and Lewis Milestone picked up the technique popularized a few years earlier in the stage production of The Front Page. But he practically trademarked it in MASH. And he kept using it as a way of suggesting that life wasn't as neat as most movie stories. It was a messy thing - chaos, only vaguely organized - and it offered few straightforward resolutions or consolations. To the movie moguls, that was a call to anarchy...
...Seventeenth Doll. For those familiar with Gurr's plays-from the aids-era's DesireLines through to Crazy Brave, Sex Diary of an Infidel, Jerusalem and his recent Something to Declare, about refugees-his memoir is an opportunity to understand how those plays came about. His creative ideal: Never invent, only reveal. He brings a reader close enough to taste the rumble between what he describes as "the unconscious impulse and the internal editor." "Whenever I've tried to modify the first impulse of a play," he writes, "it has turned into carpentry, an exercise in detached invention. Fiddled with...
...Rich’s slightly more interesting observations is that Democrats would be equally tempted to take advantage of this new American mentality: “The Bush White House certainly did not invent this culture. It has been years in the making and it is bipartisan. But this administration was the first to take office after it was fully on-line and was brilliant at exploiting it to serve its own selfish reality-remaking ends...