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...promise of easy adoptive parenthood. In most areas of the country, adoption is a frustrating process, burdened by the red tape and interminable waiting lists of state adoption agencies. Although a few other states also allow adoptions in local courts by nonresidents, South Carolina offers a unique blend of lax laws, aggressive lawyers and open-minded newspapers that accept classified ads from couples seeking babies. Federal regulations that are more rigorously enforced elsewhere, like the requirement that state officials conduct a "home study" of the prospective parents' fitness to adopt a child, are routinely waived by South Carolina...
...cake icing. (In the early '60s, Morley did put the pigment on with icing nozzles.) Its dull turbulence parodies the violence implicit in expressionist paint handling. The heavy brush stroke is no longer an index of earnestness; it quotes strong feeling without necessarily endorsing it. Morley's blend of coolness and violence has some of the hypnotic impact of early Warhol. But it is far more complicated and nuanced, and it is free from overtones of chic...
...Public Policy program has tried to put together "a blend of studies," Moseley said, adding that in terms of numbers of faculty, "Frankly, we're just not there yet. If she had left in the fall we'd be in trouble." Bane taught two courses alone in the fall, the bulk of her teaching responsibilities...
Bucyk decided to attend Northeastern because he felt that the school offered "the best blend of education and sports" and because he appreciates Boston's enthusiasm for hockey...
...Dire in 1975, the book eluded next classification, wandering through bookstores and across best-seller lists first as fiction, then as documentary. The book's most recent wanderings have taken it across the Atlantic, where a new English translation dubs itself an "autobiographical novel." Cardinal's story is a blend of fact and fiction which sets the past in an imaginary framework, elevating the specific details of an individual life to a universal level...