Word: fabricating
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...world, the sky, the sun and moon and Adam and Eve with an air of happy surprise. The Devil is a horned and hairy-bottomed practical joker who tosses what monkey wrenches he can into Cod's works. The angels are busy little helpers; they drape swatches of fabric around the skinless animals so that the Creator can judge which hide suits which beast; they also hold up various kinds of sky like wallpaper samples...
...nonmetallic, zipperlike fastener is called Velcro, consists of two strips of fabric, one with thousands of tiny nylon hooks, the other with thousands of equally tiny nylon loops. When the strips are pressed together, hooks catch loops and hold fast. When the strips are peeled apart, hook and loop easily disengage...
...fairy stories are meant less for children than for "unbelieving adults." Dismissing Richard Wagner's work as "sauerkraut," Satie spent his life creating tiny musical gems. To Rousseau's mannered childlike-ness, says Author Shattuck, he added a formal naughtiness that made his works almost "a fragile fabric of inanity." For Parade, a ballet on which Diaghilev, Cocteau, Picasso, Massine and Satie collaborated, he wrote a score including parts for typewriters, sirens, airplane propellers, Morse tickers and lottery wheels. An eccentric in his personal life as well, he went about with a lighted clay pipe stuck...
...Eisenhower and Tab Hunter; Elvis Presley tied Tony Curtis for fifth. Classed together as good No. 6 husbands: Marlon Brando, Jeff Chandler, James Dean, Senator John F. Kennedy, Jerry Lewis, Vice President Nixon. This sort of "romantic cult" nonsense, concluded Jesuit Cervantes, is the basic cause for the weakening fabric of U.S. family life...
...school libraries. In one community in Texas, a group of parents got together and demanded that European History no longer be taught in the public schools; their demand was heeded. The Lakewood experience worked for good, the others worked for ill; but nonetheless they are all of the same fabric: the overstepping of parental bounds into the professional academic field. Even in Newton, parental groups have been able to convince the School Committee into providing Driver Education courses in the high school: a simple, reasonable request, but in a less-educated community, a school board could be similarly convinced...