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Word: inventive (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Zealots are loathe to admit that they would support Israel even if it weren't a democracy, so they invent excuses when Israel strays from the liberal democratic path. Sometimes they deny, sometimes they rationalize, and sometimes they impute the motives of Israel's critics...

Author: By John L. Larew, | Title: The Editor Strikes Back | 12/13/1989 | See Source »

...thinking person's UFO, an improbability that nevertheless resonates with mysterious and sometimes marvelous possibilities. But it has become a rather tired topic. It is almost as hard nowadays to create fictional vehicles capable of reawakening childhood reveries about zapping through the years as it is to invent a scientific instrument actually able to journey up and down the old continuum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: More Travels with Marty | 12/4/1989 | See Source »

Durang pokes fun at the hectic pace of American life by having Dr. Framingham insist, "Our society is fastpaced, so I have fast ejaculations," and he demonstrates the falseness of modern relationships by having Bruce and his analyst invent a personal ad "guaranteed" to attract women...

Author: By Adam E. Pachter, | Title: Schizophrenia | 11/10/1989 | See Source »

...cathartic about earthquakes. For some time mankind has been in the business of manufacturing its own disasters -- wars, acid rain and other pollutions, drugs, a globe aswarm with refugees. Perhaps it is a relief for a moment to be face to face with a disaster that man did not invent, a cataclysm that has at least a sort of innocence of origin in larger powers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: When the Earth Cracks Open | 10/30/1989 | See Source »

McKibben says that he believes that it is possible to find a solution to the global warming problem. People who "figured out how you could build an airplane that can fly eight times the speed of sound" can invent a way to survive without damaging the planet, he says...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Sentimentalist | 10/23/1989 | See Source »

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