But on one occasion when I encountered a similar fantasy in a little boy who was my patient I began to understand the uncanny effects of this story.

Perhaps it is only an analogy, but one of the most obvious differences between cheap fiction and fiction of an enduring quality is the development of a theme or story with leisure and anticipation.

After almost everyone had gone he told me the simple story of how one of his neighbors had moved a fence a few feet over on his land.

`` It's getting so chilly we've lighted a fire, and we're going to tell a round robin story -- a nice, scary one.

The death of Harold A. Stevens, oldest of the Stevens brothers, famed operators of baseball, football and race track concessions, revived again the story of one of the greatest business successes in history.

The trouble with all these doctrinal quarrels is that we hear only one side of the story: what, in the secret councils of the Kremlin, Molotov had really proposed, we just don't know, and he has had no chance to reply.

I wrote a few years ago that one of the cardinal rules of writing is that the reader should be able to get some idea of what the story is about.

You then descended one story, glommed a television set from the music room -- the only constructive feature of your visit, by the way -- and, returning to the ground floor, entered the master bedroom.

It's the old story, war or no war, and more than one viewer may recall Hollywood's `` Titanic '', several seasons back, when the paramount concern was for the marital discord of a society dilettante.

Using what became one of van Vogt's recurring themes, it told the story of a 9-year-old superman living in a world in which his kind are slain by Homo sapiens.

As a result, Suchet will have filmed adaptations of every Poirot novel, and all but one Poirot short story.

" The story is apocryphal and they are believed to have scored at least one two among the singles.

* In one version of the story of the birth of Achilles, Thetis anoints the infant with ambrosia and passes the child through the fire to make him immortal but Peleus, appalled, stops her, leaving only his heel unimmortalised ( Argonautica 4. 869-879 ).

The followers of Yahweh found their champion in Elijah, whose story reflects the prophetic teaching of more than one age.

In the Islamic times, a pseudo-etymology was produced by the historian Ahmad ibn Yahya al-Baladhuri ( d. 892 ) quoting a folk story that the town was presumably founded by one " Abbad bin Hosayn " from the Arabian Tribe of Banu Tamim, who established a garrison there during the governorship of Hajjaj in the Ummayad period.

Alan Cameron states: " It is only in modern times that people have taken the Atlantis story seriously ; no one did so in antiquity ".

He declares at the start: " No matter what sort he is, everyone who has to his credit what are or really seem great achievements, if he cares for truth and goodness, ought to write the story of his own life in his own hand ; but no one should venture on such a splendid undertaking before he is over forty.

One story is that The Rolling Stones went to stay at Korner's house late one night, in the early 1960s, after a performance.

Edited, with an Afterword, by Sharrar, Avery Hopwood's The Great Bordello, a Story of the Theatre, is a roman à clef that tells the story of Edwin Endsleigh — Hopwood ’ s fictional counterpart — who graduates from the University of Michigan and heads for Broadway to earn his fortune and the security to pursue his one true dream of writing the great American novel.

His few remaining masses ( the story of his having composed two hundred is hardly credible ) and church music in general are comparatively unimportant, except the great St Cecilia Mass ( 1721 ), which is one of the first attempts at the style which reached its height in the great masses of Johann Sebastian Bach and Beethoven.

The story is told that one of the Abencerrages, having fallen in love with a lady of the royal family, was caught in the act of climbing up to her window.

During one of Fisher's extended vacations, Capp's Joe Palooka story arc introduced a stupid, coarse, oafish mountaineer named " Big Leviticus ," a crude prototype.

A story can have one or many acceptance tests, whatever it takes to ensure the functionality works.

Paddy Chayefsky's Academy Award-winning Marty was the most notable examination of working class Bronx life was also explored by Chayefsky in his 1956 film The Catered Affair, and in the 1993 Robert De Niro / Chazz Palminteri film, A Bronx Tale, Spike Lee's 1999 movie Summer of Sam, centered in an Italian-American Bronx community, 1994's I Like It Like That that takes place in the predominately Puerto Rican neighborhood of the South Bronx, and Doughboys, the story of two Italian-American brothers in danger of losing their bakery thanks to one brother's gambling debts.

" The Country of the Blind ", a short story by H. G. Wells, is one of the most well-known stories featuring blind characters.

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That title evolved into Adventure Comics, which continued through issue # 503 in 1983, becoming one of the longest-running comic book series.

* In Cyberflix's PC game, Titanic: Adventure Out of Time, the object is to save three important items, the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, one of Adolf Hitler's paintings, and a notebook that proves German officials were attempting to gain geo-political advantage by instigating communist revolution.

Sonic Adventure 2 Battle was the only third party game on the GameCube to sell over one million copies in the United States alone.

Only one adventure, " The Adventure of the Lion's Mane ", which is narrated by Holmes as he pursues the case as a civilian, takes place during the detective's retirement.

In The Adventure of the Gloria Scott, he tells Watson that during two years at college, he made only one friend, Victor Trevor.

Although Holmes appears to show initial interest in some female clients ( in particular, Violet Hunter in " The Adventure of the Copper Beeches "), Watson says he inevitably " manifested no further interest in the client when once she had ceased to be the centre of one of his problems ".

One such tale is Echtra Nerai (' The Adventure of Nera ') concerning one Nera from Connacht who undergoes a test of bravery put forth by King Ailill.

Poe had complained for a decade that the paper's Great Moon Hoax had plagiarized ( by way of Locke ) the basic idea from The Unparalleled Adventure Of One Hans Pfaall, one of Poe's less successful stories which also involved similar inhabitants on the moon.

Modern usage derives primarily from one of the earliest computer games, Colossal Cave Adventure, in which the idea is to explore an underground cave with many rooms, collecting the treasures found there.

Zork was one of the earliest interactive fiction computer games, with roots drawn from the original genre game, Colossal Cave Adventure.

Originally stemmed from ideas of Sierra's adventure game Softporn Adventure created by designer Chuck Benton, the " Larry " games were one of Sierra's most popular game series during the genre's heyday when it was first released in the mid 1980s.

Arthur Conan Doyle wrote in his 1904 novel The Adventure of the Six Napoleons, " It seemed to be one of those senseless acts of Hooliganism which occur from time to time, and it was reported to the constable on the beat as such ".

GamesRadar listed Final Fantasy Adventure as one of the titles they want in the 3DS Virtual Console.

The stories were: " Dougal's Experiment ", " A Starry Night ", " The Moody Concerto ", " Dougal's Adventure ", " The Stiff Necked Heliotropes " on side one and " The Birds School ", " The Piano Carrier ", " Banana Skin ", " The Musical Box ", " The Announcer " on side two.

Bowser appears as a playable character in the Mario Kart series and various Mario sport titles, such as Mario Golf, Mario Tennis, and Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games with its sequels Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games and Mario & Sonic at the London 2012 Olympic Games where he is one of the two main villains ( with Dr. Eggman ) in the Adventure Mode ( handheld versions only ).

* Finn the Human, one of the main protagonists in the 2010 animated series Adventure Time with Finn and Jake

* Tschai — The sole planet of Carina 4269, 212 light-years from Earth, slightly larger than Terra and populated by three alien races, one sentient native species and various human races, as described in " Planet of Adventure " by Jack Vance.

There is one High Adventure Scouting Event in Arkansas

Visitors to Disney California Adventure Park in Anaheim, California can be treated to a brief glimpse of the foothills in one of the park's attractions: Soarin ' Over California.

Hilton returned in 1667 with the support of backers from Barbados, the " Barbados Adventurers ", aboard a ship, the " Adventure " ( now the name of one of the Bald Head Island ferries ).

A replica of the little boy's toy telephone is on display in one of the gift shop windows at the Hollywood Tower Hotel in Disney's California Adventure park.

* E-105 Zeta, one of the E-100 Series robots from the video game Sonic Adventure

During the 1960s, he continued his television career, with guest appearances on such series as The Barbara Stanwyck Show, Route 66 ( a moving portrayal of a doomed pilot in the two-part episode " Fly Away Home "); Alfred Hitchcock Presents ; Perry Mason ( one of four actors in four consecutive episodes substituting for series star Raymond Burr, who was recovering from surgery ); Wagon Train ( a 90-minute colour episode as an English big game hunter who, in a display of amazing marksmanship, is able to kill an Indian chief from a great distance ); The Great Adventure ( in an installment of this anthology series about remarkable events in American history, he portrayed Confederate president Jefferson Davis ); Daniel Boone, ( in episodes " The Sound of Wings " and " First in War, First in Peace "); Lost in Space ( another two-part episode — as an all-powerful alien zookeeper, " The Keeper ", he worked one last time with his Third Man costar Jonathan Harris ); The Time Tunnel ( as Captain Smith of The Titanic, in the series ' 9 September 1966 premiere episode ); Batman ( as the villainous Sandman, in league with Julie Newmar's Catwoman ); three episodes of The Invaders ( as a malign variation of the Klaatu persona, culminating in a parallel plot also involving an assembly of world leaders ); an episode of I Spy (" Lana "); and two episodes of The F. B. I.