Word: fancifulism
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How welcome the good notices will be. The fact is that those at home have caused great consternation in recent weeks. And what seems most surprising is that much of the press rancor has lashed about the lovely head of the nation's new royal sweetheart, the Princess of Wales...
They travel in gangs through the hills of the state of Madhya Pradesh, robbing wayfarers as did highwaymen of old. Villagers admire them, movies glorify their exploits. For eight centuries, India's dacoits (dakoo is the Hindi word for bandit) have been the buccaneering heroes of pulp-magazine adventures...
It takes no sorcerer's power to realize that this other land is one small leap of the imagination from J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-earth, and that Jen's adventures will frequently echo the Hobbit Frodo Baggins' in The Lord of the Rings. As narrative, the...
Erté is one of the few fortunate artists who have lived long enough to luxuriate in their own revival. The acknowledged master of art deco in the 1920s and '30s, he created exuberantly fanciful costumes in his Paris studio for Anna Pavlova, Mrs. William Randolph Hearst and Josephine...
Napolitano has said that she never intended to deceive her Spanish professor but university counsel Thomas H Wright said The argument about what one did or didn't intend strikes me as a totally fanciful discussion in this case He termed her argument legal or philosophical hairsplitting. The Daily Princetonian...