Word: exactions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...exact sum involved has not been decided. "Our office will pay the out-of-pocket monies, and the School of Education will provide the rest-staff time, volunteer time, administration." Donald C. Moulton, assistant director of Community Affairs, said...
...effect of economic uncertainty upon stock prices has been magnified by doubts about the likely impact of post-freeze controls on business. Many businessmen worry that the controls will hold prices down more than wages, and that profits will suffer as a result. That is the exact reverse of the anxiety expressed by labor leaders, who fear that the controls will restrict wages more than prices, and that profits will soar while workers are hurt...
...Ackroyd) to secure special privileges for the camp's Jewish contingent. Between the laughs and the plot twists lurks the question of where ethnic solidarity begins and ends. Epstein, the funniest of the tales, focuses on that universal malady, middle age. Epstein's morale has drooped in exact ratio to the sag of his wife Goldie's breasts. In the title role, Lou Jacobi, who looks rather like a Levantine Walter Cronkite, is hilarious, wistful, bewildered and altogether human. Epstein has an affair with a sprightly widow. But, under Jehovah's unblinking eye, there...
...trees. His main pleasure was ballroom dancing, but, according to one of his friends, "he carried out his steps in such a personally stylized fashion that the results were frequently awkward." His solitary rooms in Paris, and later in New York, were kept with fussy precision, down to the exact placement of ashtrays. His life was a masterpiece of sublimation in art's interest...
...them, to do them, to do them! The more you paint, the nearer you get to something. You must do as many as possible." This obsessed machismo resembles nothing so much as a displacement of sex into art: the furious production of Picasso's old age is an exact pictorial counterpart to the catalogue of seductions by Mozart's Don Giovanni, whose promiscuity was a shield against death...