Word: creation
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...Students for George W. Bush, whose founding parallels the creation of similar groups supporting Democratic candidates Al Gore '69 and Bill Bradley, is an affiliate of the College Republicans. The new group has drawn about 20 people to its first two meetings...
Marcus' appointment coincides with the creation of a new center for nanotechnology--Marcus' field--at Harvard. Marcus said he hopes the center will "put the Harvard at the forefront...
...shadowed him in the White House. And so Morris constructed a story that lies on the shoulders of a semi-fictional narrator, a modified version of himself. The bulk of the criticism of Morris' book, which has been as fast as it has been furious, rests with the creation of this narrator. Certainly unorthodox, this new technique has raised serious questions about both literary and historical integrity. But what must be recognized is that in providing Reagan with an audience, however fictional it may be, Morris is playing to an intrinsic part of Reagan's character, the performer...
...leering humor about sex and yammering about death. Tracey Emin's canvas tent called Everyone I Have Ever Slept With (1995) is done inside with crudely laid-out names and notes about old paramours. It camps out a short distance from Mona Hatoum's more elegant but hardly deep creation (despite its title, Deep Throat): a dining table with proper tablecloth and silver, and a plate whose bottom is a video screen showing the travels of an invasive camera down a human gullet...
...leaking blood, Essrog finally starts asking questions. Just what were all those errands for? And why would Minna retell a joke instead of fingering his killer in his final moments? Finding out whodunit is interesting enough, but it's more fun watching Lethem unravel the mysteries of his Tourettic creation. In this case, it takes one trenchant wordsmith to know another...