Word: blooms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Though state and local taxes will quickly be poured back into the economy in labor and material costs, they nonetheless pluck dollars away from middle-income consumers-at a time when consumer confidence seems at last to be flowering. Whether it will continue to bloom in the shadow of these fiscal increases is a matter of deep concern among economy watchers in and out of the Administration...
...Rabbit, Updike's precision grows accordingly, down to the news stories Harry sets in type. And, as sexual needs become franker (it is in sex that Rabbit's peers are as sentient as he), Updike's use of stream-of-consciousness is ecstatically successful, Janice's already-famous Molly Bloom jag vitally compresses an expository confession until it is touching in its revelation of character, and sexually provocative...
...most of us would accept an amalgam of megalomania, immorality, the frizzles and flat feet; but happily we don't have to. To experience a Sills performance is to revel in her joyous nature, her exuberance, her graciousness and that leavening of mischief. Sills is summer ir full bloom...
...Illinois, tested sludge in demonstration projects. The results were startling. The soupy product was easy to spray where needed with standard irrigation equipment and did not smell bad -both distinct advantages over animal manure. Better yet, used as a soil nutrient, it caused clay and even silicate sand to bloom. Still, nobody wanted sludge because of its despised origins. "We flew thousands of miles looking for people to take it," says Ben Sosewitz, general superintendent of the district. "Some people laughed at us. Though we had developed economical, beneficial methods of disposal, we were always frustrated by lack of public...
...Oates will also continue to act in carefully chosen roles. "On the surface he's a scruffy, funky, Okie guy, but he has a quiet thing going underneath that makes him extraordinary as an actor," says Verna Bloom, who played opposite him as the wife in The Hired Hand. Without boasting, Oates acknowledges a mature quality in his own work. "I don't get fan letters from little girls," he says, "but I do get them from doctors, lawyers, writers and professors. You see," he explains thoughtfully, "I try to give whatever I play a morality...