Word: functioning
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...because of its lack of critical distance and inattention to detail. As biography it fails because only small sections of the book are written by Levy himself. The book is closest to autobiography although Chavez had no say over what to include. Form should, of course, be wedded to function; the ambiguity in the form of Levy's book reveals a certain confusion on the author's part over just what his book is really about. The constant switching of focus, from one interviewee to another, is annoying and detracts from a clean development of the narrative...
Late last week the Prince bowed to intense pressure from Arias and other top officials. Juan Carlos accepted the designation as Spain's temporary ruler when Arias invoked Article 11 of Spain's Organic Law and declared that Franco was currently unable to function in office "in view of the circumstance of illness." Observed a European diplomat in Madrid: "It seems that the Prince is accepting temporary powers in the knowledge that they are in fact permanent...
Juan Carlos assumed all of Franco's powers, except the positions of head of the Movimiento National and of generalissimo of "the Three Armies"-posts el Caudillo retains for life. The Prince, however, already wields sufficient authority to launch Spain's post-Franco epoch. His first official function, in fact, clearly symbolized that power had been transferred to him; he presided over Friday's Cabinet meeting, which was held around the dining-room table of his Zarzuela Palace rather than in the dining room of Franco's El Pardo...
America's elite had gathered, but not for a political function--Tip O'Neill stood, not on Pennsylvania Avenue, but on Jersey Street in Boston. The crowd was dressed for opera, but there was no opera house. The reporters were jotting down notes for the sports page, not for op-ed columns or music reviews. The upper class had descended on Fenway Park for the first game of the World Series...
...allow the patient who is already virtually dead to pass away in peace." A few years later, a Church of England study pamphlet said all such life-support machines should have only one purpose: to keep vital organs going until doctors can tell whether the organs can ever again function on their...