Word: arms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...note from the Internal Revenue Service. It was a nice note, as these things go. The IRS computer has definitely been through charm school in recent years. But "as a result of an error we have corrected on Schedule E of your return, you owe IRS . . . ((an arm...
Well, actually it wasn't an arm and a leg. More like a finger. Still, because I had done my return with one of those computer software packages that promises no mistakes (and because my name and face were on that computer software package), I was more than a little curious to know just what the error...
Jazz life on dream street: days of drizzly twilight, long spiky nights of taking a nick off Nirvana with a piano run or a horn solo, walking arm in arm into a rainy dawn with your next sad love affair. Meanwhile, real life on ! Lawrence Street: a two-story frame house in a working-class neighborhood of Washington. The den extension and the enlarged kitchen were not built by the man of the house, Shep Deering, but by his wife, who is handy with a hammer and saw. Her husband of 35 years still works as a mechanic...
...complex vision. Placed in a world of darkness and asymmetries, Aeschylus' familiar characters are de-familiarized, distored and dissected. Athena, once the cool, collected goddess of wisdom, is transformed into a weary, indifferent hostess. The Athenian court of justice degenerates into a cocktail party where under-the-table arm-twisting subverts the Athenian ideal of justice. The furies are not beyond consoling themselves with booze, narcotics and yogurt, not is Orestes above Oedipal fantasies for the mother whome he has murdered...
...would be a great shot in the arm to the humanities at Harvard to have a humanist as president," says Professor of English Marjorie Garber, who is also the Faculty's associate dean for affirmative action...