Word: devour
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...perhaps at the expense of his own work. There is le petit Marcel in his fur-lined greatcoat, posed like a sad Charlie Chaplin. Or running from salon to salon: the funniest and crudest young man in any room. Or crouched motionless before a rose, as if he could devour it and the whole world just by looking. Finally attention is drawn to those eyes: great smudged pools, staring like a lover at life and death. The eyes of a Jew, a homosexual, an invalid and an artist-a foreigner to all countries. What was his favorite Dickens novel? Bleak...
...pension plan that the city had worked out with municipal unions. It is one of the most generous pensions ever offered to U.S. workers. Upon reaching 55, a retired worker could collect half pay after 20 years on the job and full pay after 40 years. Since pensions already devour 11? of every dollar paid in state and city taxes in New York, the legislature balked. For the first time, it refused to rubber-stamp a city-approved pension...
...Greenwich Village occult bookstore, complain that Schmidt doesn't ascribe any "elements" (air, water, fire, etc.) to his new signs or enhance them "for esoteric value" with much mythology. Actually, Schmidt borrows some myths from the Encyclopaedia Britannica, both on Cetus (a monster sent by Neptune to devour Andromeda) and on Ophiuchus (either a king killing a dragon, Heracles killing a serpent, or a physician curing snakebites). "Anyway," Stillman insists, "according to Schmidt, I'm an Aquarius. But I don't feel it or act it. Therefore...
...Alice in Wonderland, what bird watched a panther devour a pie and what fate did the bird eventually meet...
What can be done? The obvious answer is to erase some laws from the books. So-called "victimless" crimes like public intoxication, for example, devour court time across the country. Drug offenses account for 51% of all serious criminal cases in Los Angeles. If legislators repealed penalties for crimes like gambling and pot-smoking, the courts could obviously focus on the major crimes they now handle so badly...