Word: lostness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...style is Leibowitz's rationale for this book, then it seems an unfortunate consequence the turgid, academic prose he has chosen to express his own. Between the pages of plot summary, the endless intellectual bragging and the almost repetitive invocations of some nebulous American national "identity," Fabricating Lives gets lost in its own pretentiousness...
Reality: This one contains two outright fabrications. The Suzanne Vega concert was so poorly attended that the council lost money hand over fist, had to take out a loan from BayBanks to cover their costs, and attempted to renege on their agreement with Vega to donate a portion of the concert's proceeds to AIDS research...
...said there was no sign of the plane's fate by nightfall, more than five hours after contact was lost...
...Your guy lost--he's outta there," one of them said with a certain degree of mocking joy as I reached for a Post...
Here's one from the files: Since Coach Stuyvesant Fish's 1870 Columbia squad lost to Rutgers, 6-3, in the days of post-Civil War America, the Lions have had 60 losing seasons. They've been over the .500 mark only 31 times...