the arts

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In recent decades, the television sitcom has reflected the massive shift towards urban life.


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Sometimes the rules an artist follows help spur creative work.


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On one hand, we want effectiveness, but on the other, we want fairness. A lot of superhero fiction explores this tension.


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Today, with the comfort and leisure of modern open markets, we can scarcely imagine the back-breaking work of yore.


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The barter economy exists parallel to the monetary economy all around us.


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It was only after the creation of wealth that Florence was able to afford such ambitious artistic achievement.


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More attention to economic matters before most marriages might help lower the divorce rate and increase the happiness of married couples.

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In fiction, we can be sure that our protagonists are pursuing the actually guilty—not so, in the real world.

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In alternate-history science fiction story, the Axis won the Second World War.


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When the only thing standing between the poet and the rats is a few lines of verse, a little cold cash might be nice.