Word: biting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...audience, keeps it involved, and only lets it go in the last moments. The ending--which drifts off from the allegorical to the surreal--is completely unsatisfactory, but then, 1900 is too rich to take in all at once. A last-ditch effort to make the film into a bite-sized chunk couldn't have worked. This is, perhaps, a disaster, but one of magnificent--and unforgettable--proportions...
...Langurs of Abu, Harvard Anthropologist Sarah Blaffer Hrdy, 31, portrays langur life as a "soap opera" that revolves around the struggle between the sexes. As in other species, the strongest males compete for control of each troop. What makes the langurs different is that the winner tries to bite to death the young offspring of his predecessor. The mothers resist the infanticide until the struggle looks hopeless, then pragmatically present themselves to the new ruler for copulation...
...time for a midlife crisis"), where he can indulge himself as "a born-again atheist," a man torn between two continents, who should be buried in the Azores under a cruciform credit card. He sees himself as a fraud, "TV's Amazing Thinking Man who speaks in little bite-sized paragraphs...cursed with a special sound, which disappears in a twinkling if he listens to other people too long...
...first $16,500 of an employee's wages (earnings above that are not taxed for Social Security). This meant that the maximum payment for workers and bosses was $965 each. Under the old law, the maximum tax was already scheduled to rise next year to $1,071. The bite under the new law will begin in 1979, when the maximum payment will be $1,404 on a salary of $22,900. By 1987 it will be $3,046 on a salary of $42,600. Workers earning $10,000 this year paid $585 in Social Security taxes; by 1987, they...
...critic with a deadly bite...