Word: creation
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...other hand, meet the imaginative needs of the community in the form of entertainment. And just as the Bible is an epic f the Creator, Romance "brings us closer than any other aspect of literature to a sense of fiction, considered as a whole, as epic of creation, man's vision of his own life as a quest." Romance isn't necessarily just a love story. Sometimes it's an adventure story and some of its common conventions, according to Frye, include stories of miraculous birth, oracular prophecies, foster parents, capture by pirates, narrow escapes from death, recognition...
...Kiely maid is paid out of the entertainment fund despite the creation two years ago of a separate administrative stipend that Dean Whitlock yesterday called "more appropriate" for such expenditures...
...creation of the 1974 campaign finance law-and the Supreme Court's careful weighing of its merits-were both attempts to grapple with two basic questions that have always plagued the political process in the U.S.: How can every political candidate, whatever his wealth or influence, get a fair and equal chance to run for office? And what role should the Government play in setting out-and enforcing-the ground rules...
...most important of Arias' proposed "limited modifications" in Spain's 18-year-old constitution was the creation of a second chamber of the Cortes, Spain's Parliament. This would be a popularly elected lower house that would have equal power with a largely appointed upper chamber. Arias also promised to reform the electoral law that now allows only Franco's National Movement to exist as a political party. Arias carefully avoided using the word party, but most observers interpreted his speech to mean that moderate parties and possibly even a socialist coalition would eventually be permitted...
...provided with the Waldorf suite, a car and a driver. But their only servant is Hives, a life-sized papier-mache butler who stands at the door of the apartment wearing the castaway clothes of a warm-blooded English butler who once worked for them. The figure is the creation of their son Tim. With all three children away at school, Hives and a wire-haired fox terrier named...