In the charming, low-rise capital of Oman, a groundswell of contemporary artists are eschewing traditional muses, bringing ...

But throw Rudolf Valentino into a dishdasha, and bung him on the silver screen with a Wurlitzer swirl, and soon the word is officially real. Not that every coinage survived the interim.

Zipper is an equivalent mess. Whitcomb Judson conceived the sliding fastener in the 1890s, the gadget needing decades to streamline. By 1925 in fact, boosted by sealable mailbags and Goodrich galoshes ...