Word: filamentous
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Some of these stories are mere wisps-a filament of character, a. frisson of nuance. A few are too fanciful by half. What makes the collection very much worth reading is the author's ardent belief in her characters. Paley finds all her people exceptional, and she describes them with a charge of feeling that is unfailingly seductive...
...Bedlington was just a pup when she ate, with no preparation whatever, some light bulbs-disdaining the filament and socket screw. And I thought her wacky rather than precocious! Evidently it takes a Harvard education to garnish with Granola...
First the bulb eater cracks the glass into slivers and discards the filament and socket screw; there are limits even to an undergraduate's digestive prowess...
...rapidly in the late 1960s, but their new plants started spinning out fibers at precisely the wrong time. U.S. imports of European fibers have sagged, partly because last year's currency realignments raised the dollar price, partly because U.S. firms are producing a larger percentage of the polyester filament used in popular jersey-knit textiles, previously a prime market for the Europeans. Last year also, when the Nixon Administration pressured Japan into clamping "voluntary" restraints on textile exports to the U.S., the Japanese redirected much of their sales drive to Europe. In Britain, Japan...
Igor Stravinsky at eighty-eight is a lean and dragonish filament of a man, small, swift, acerbic, who has with the utmost restraint and greatest reluctance declined the invitation of fate to become the Russian Groucho Marx. His latest conversation book, Retrospectives and Conclusions, is presumably his last, although I suspect he will confound his critics, who have persisted for the last decade in treating him posthumously, by transubstantiating his immortal remains into yet another book, entitled Scances and Exhumations. Stravinsky employs a gleeful and at times parasitic mastery of Americanese to lightly convey his scorn of cultural dipsomania, sentimentality...