Word: fabricated
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Moorhouse also weaves humor into the fabric of her movie. One cannot help but be amused by Martin's method of catching the waiter's attention at a restaurant by pouring the wine on the table instead of the glass...
Moorhouse thus leaves the viewer with a rich fabric of emotional foreplay, woven together with the effective audio-visual devices and well-handled acting. One comes away with a sense of fascination and warmth. The poignant use of music and the implied sense of touch places the viewer inside the plot--watching the world, so to speak--through Martin's eyes. As for proof of the movie's worth, there is plenty...
...would have been invited to appear on the Today show to promote her turgid novel, Embrace the Serpent, if Dan Quayle were just another golf-loving lawyer from Indiana. Could it be pure coincidence that Greek businessman Basil Tsakos was paying Mark Hatfield's wife $55,000 for choosing fabric and paint chips for his office at the same time the Oregon Senator was urging federal support for Tsakos' $12 billion oil pipeline? Former Washington Mayor Marion Barry's wife Effie hardly got those fur coats and low-interest loans as just another "publicist" in a town where nearly everyone...
Dean of the College L. Fred Jewett '57, speaking to participants, called the forum an "important" step toward "improving the fabric of our common life...
...long black leather overcoat looked around nervously as he passed by, worried that a hair might be out of place. Guys stood in the bathroom with their cream-colored, curtain-fabric jackets, satin shirts, blow-dried hair, staring at themselves in the mirror like junior high kids prepping for the final plunge onto the dance floor. But these guys were in their fifties...