Word: cuttingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Writing the story of the land and people was enough. He set up his huge Graflex in the middle of Depot Street one evening to photograph the grain elevator gloriously in flames. He parked his Ford in a cut made by a snowplow after one of the blizzards of 1936. The picture showed the snowbanks piled around the car. Every farmer with a crazy scheme to kill the swarms of grasshoppers that came with the drought got his ear. On a scorching day he watched one farmer race around his pasture with a scoop fixed on the front...
...went Hollywood with relish, interviewing Bob Newhart, Dick Van Dyke and Tom Poston. That was before the Dutch elm disease decimated the leafy canopy over the square and left the side streets with sunstroke. Greenfield folks watched in shock as the massive elms, more than 100 years old, were cut down and hauled away. But immediately stories began to appear in the Free Press of tree-planting programs and parties. The rural society would heal itself once again...
Faced with such unpleasant responsibilities, what did Washington do? Once again, it lost itself in a politically irresistible orgy of tax reduction. By voting to fulfill George Bush's campaign promise and cut capital-gains taxes, House Republicans and renegade Democrats jumped at a short-term boost in revenues against a long-term loss. The giveaway fractured the foundation of the landmark 1986 tax-reform law. The drain on the Treasury could be compounded when the measure reaches the Senate, where it is expected to pass, and Democrats try to extend the tax breaks on individual retirement accounts. It seemed...
Early this year, the capital-gains cut looked like a pledge that could not be redeemed. It was one of the few campaign issues on which George Bush took a beating from Michael Dukakis; Bush's congressional allies introduced legislation, but with no real hope of passage. When the proposal began to gather surprising momentum, Democratic leaders denounced the idea as a giveaway to Bush's rich friends and thundered about a "defining issue" -- one on which Democrats should hold fast to demonstrate just what the difference is between their party and the Republicans. For Bush to prevail...
...problem listeners might find with Brave and Crazy is that many of the songs sound alike, and virtually all have similar lyrics. Typical is "No Souvenirs," the first cut of the album that allows Etheridge's voice to range from melodic ballad to a bluesy rap: like most of the rest of the album, however, it follows a standard pattern of alternating a slow, mournful verse with a fast, angry refrain...