For years, the Council budgeted millions of dollars for dozens of fictitious community organizations and used the money later for grants to favored neighborhood groups.
It may have violated the principle of one person one vote by giving sparsely populated Staten Island as much representation as Brooklyn (fourth-largest city in America, remember?), but at least it never directed millions of dollars to fictitious community groups, à la today's City Council.
Nothing lasts forever in Grover's Corners — nor does any production of "Our Town," Thornton Wilder's play about life and loss in that fictitious New Hampshire community.
Halfway through, organisers spiced things up with the announcement that Apple had entered the market with iTown, a fictitious online community for users of its iTunes music service.
The broadly humorous comic strip was set in the fictitious backwoods community of Dogpatch, U.S.A., and featured Li'l Abner, a shy and awkward rustic; Daisy Mae, a persistent damsel who finally caught Abner after a 17-year pursuit; the pipe-smoking Mammy Yokum; and various social caricatures.
His 2012 film "Moonrise Kingdom," a sweet story of adolescent first love set against a background of pain and loss, is set in 1965 in a fictitious New England island community that undergoes vast geographical — and moral — changes by way of a quasi-Biblical, quasi-apocalyptic catastrophe.
His 2012 film "Moonrise Kingdom," a sweet story of adolescent first love set against a background of pain and loss, is set in 1965 in a fictitious New England island community that undergoes vast geographical and moral changes by way of a quasi-Biblical, quasi-apocalyptic catastrophe.
In Europe, where much of the vampire folklore originates, the vampire is usually considered a fictitious being, although many communities may have embraced the revenant for economic purposes.
The community of Spoon River was fictitious; it was compounded of Petersburg and Lewistown, Ill., which Masters had known as a boy.
Now, though, Ms. Ru has emerged as a central figure in a continuing federal investigation into whether thousands of dollars in illegal contributions have been funneled to the Liu campaign through a network of fictitious donors in the city's Asian-American communities, according to a person familiar with the matter, who spoke on the condition of anonymity.
Madoff imitated Ponzi in a few particulars, such as victimizing his own community (in his case, Jewish) and inventing fictitious returns, but his improvements on the traditional Ponzi scheme are breathtaking.
