Word: block
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...Massachusetts likes to keep you married, the student remarked to the man whose tax forms she examined. "Unless a judge gives you an official separation, you are still married under Massachusetts law." H&R Block it isn't, but in a small room in the basement of Memorial Hall every Wednesday afternoon, a group of Law School students have offered free help to people with tax problems for the last eight weeks...
...February to take over security functions from the Lebanese Forces, the Phalangist-led coalition of Christian militias, the troops managed the 2½-mile deployment without a hitch. But their chow did not arrive until 18 hours later. Says a senior U.S. official: "The Lebanese army is like a block of Swiss cheese. A lot of it is solid, but you run into holes in surprising places...
...already complex situation." Others contend that at best, it is inconsistent policymaking. "The Administration cannot cut programs for the handicapped," says Dr. Anne Fletcher, nursery director at Children's Hospital in Washington, "and at the same time want these babies saved." A lawsuit has been filed to block the rules. But already the first hot-line calls have come in, leading to an investigation of at least one false alarm involving ten children in a Tennessee hospital...
Most people in the press corps, whether reporting for print or broadcast, do in fact use the replies to Donaldson's queries. Says a rival from another network: "Sam is the first one out of the block, and the rest of us need him in a White House as tough to crack as this one." Howell Raines, former White House correspondent for the New York Times, agrees. Says he: "Donaldson plays an important role, asking the obvious question that everyone wants the answer...
...Kent Broadhurst's lovely The Habitual Acceptance of the Near Enough, a Manhattan gallery owner (Frederic Major) instructs a brilliant, unknown painter (John C. Vennema) in the art of compromise; fortunately the lesson does not take. In Jeffrey Sweet's The Value of Names, Benny (Larry Block), a blacklisted actor who has revived his career on a TV sitcom, crosses rusty swords with Leo (Frederic Major again), the theater director who had testified against him before the House Committee on Un-American Activities. The play's political prejudices are clearly on Benny's side; its emotional...