But it is the character of Cora that anticipates the intricate glories of Sondheim creations to come.
Ouch! Disappointed but not deterred, City Room has stealthily waited for high-quality photos of the Google creations to come our way.
They like a fast pace and a linear story, but you want your creations to come out of you, and be distinctive.
"The job creation has to come from the export sector".
The act of creation seems to come easily to Charles Stross, the English author whose new novel, Glasshouse (Ace Books, $24.95), is his eighth to be published since 2003.
The majority of job creation is predicted to come from small companies in the years ahead.
"There has to have been a degree of independent creation for someone to come up with a giant crate, even if it is just a scaled-up version of something that already exists," he said.
With the exception of sushi, an Edo-era creation, everything seems to come from somewhere else: ramen is Hakata or Hokkaido style, elaborate kaiseki meals come from Kyoto, and a full third of Tokyo's 191 Michelin stars are French or Italian.
President Ronald Reagan, who substantially expanded the credit during his administration, called it "the best antipoverty, the best pro-family, the best job creation measure ever to come out of Congress".
