Melinda Henneberger: She spent 10 years as a reporter for the New York Times, in the paper's Washington and Rome bureaus, and found covering the Vatican a lot like covering Congress, the former having practically invented politics.
Wurlitzer, he wrote, "is surely the individual most responsible for exploring this genre, having practically invented it himself in the late 60s and then helped to nurture it in the scripts of others".
In Tennessee, the Democratic Party, which had dominated state politics for all of living memory, and which, indeed, had practically been invented in Tennessee (Andrew Jackson lived within a hundred miles of where Senator Gore was born), seemed to have expired practically overnight.
"Iran had practically become a dream now, an invented product of childhood imagination," he wrote.
They had practically no customers.
She had had practically no free time.
Like Nokia, the Finnish company that practically invented texting (legend has it this was because Finnish geeks, God love them, were too shy to ask for dates face to face and so invented SMS to overcome their SPDs, ie socio-psychic deficiencies), BlackBerry had its years of phone-based cachet.
The onetime bad boy Alan Jackson has evolved into the genre's chief dignitary, and Toby Keith, who practically invented post-9/11 cultural jingoism, has grown into a country-soul balladeer.
A device company - which makes CPUs for internal use - surpassing Intel, the world's largest chip maker which practically invented the CPU and has thousands of customers [3].
After all, it's probably Salinger – who always had a gimlet eye for an outsider – who practically invented the whole genre with his monumentally fucked up family of geniuses, the Glasses.
