Word: creation
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Once again, they've hit the jackpot: Their new creation, Animal House, will greatly amuse all but the easily offended. It is easily the funniest movie of the year. Much of it merits praise, even lavish praise. But it is interesting to note how much they've stuck to their original gags, how they've maintained the edge of offensiveness tempered by outrageousness and good humor. And insipidly enough, Animal House is also quite the Ivy League film. For Animal House is the ultimate Dartmouth movie--or, at least the ultimate rendering of the characteristically snotty Harvard image of Dartmouth...
...which spends $5 billion a year to provide Government workers with offices, supplies and motor vehicles, has been a haven for political hacks since its creation 29 years ago. Florida Democrat Lawton Chiles, whose Senate subcommittee on federal spending practices has also been investigating the agency, calls it "a graveyard for job seekers with political connections that Administrations couldn't put somewhere else...
...diplomat, but she demonstrated considerable knowledge of the area and concern for its problems. "My talks saved Jimmy a lot of time," she told Washington Correspondent Johanna McGeary last week, "because he can pick up where I left off." There were other criticisms, though, of such foibles as her creation of a special seal for her trip. Says one longtime acquaintance: "Rosalynn revels in the servants and the service. She gets a thrill out of hobnobbing with celebrities...
...much good or bad as it is simply there. Describing the Bible as an intrinsic part of secular as well as religious culture, Authors Gusztaá Gecse and Henrik Horváth announce that their goal is to explain it as "a human and literary creation." In a favorable editorial, the Communist Party daily Népszabadság listed three reasons for Communists to gain familiarity with Christianity's handbook. One was to understand such Bible-based expressions as "Solomonic verdict" and "scapegoat," another to "enrich the dialogue with believers." But the most important, said Népszabads...
...dressed in European worsteds and as obviously at ease in a barroom throbbing with used-Ford salesmen as in a hearing room full of Senators. If humans can be said to have automotive analogues, lacocca suggests nothing so much as a Ford Mustang, that stylish-yet-democratic car whose creation is perhaps lacocca's greatest triumph...