Word: flash
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...read verse, write it, or both. The technique seems to be effective in both individual and group treatment, probably because serious poems usually touch on deep, universal emotions. According to Yale Psychiatrist Albert Rothenberg, a patient who suddenly deciphers the message of a great poet may experience a flash of understanding similar to the dramatic insight that can come to patients in ordinary psychotherapy. By writing an original poem, an inhibited, repressed person may tell his doctor much that was previously secret. Poetry, says Rothenberg, "is even more revelatory than dreams...
...property tax in recent months has become the flash point of the taxpayer rebellion. More than half the $36 billion collected by property taxes annually is earmarked specifically to pay local communities' share of education costs. But in many cities, towns and villages, property taxes also raise most of the revenues for the whole range of local government services...
...owners the mineral rights to their land; other people, who bought the rights earlier, can dig up the yards at any time for silver, coal, or even gravel. Other items in the property report that Southwest filed with HUD: "There are no provisions for street maintenance after 1975 . . . Flash floods may destroy portions of the streets in certain units...
They came up with a flashy-looking five-passenger convertible, a real jazzy-looking machine . . . They told me it would go 400 miles on one tank of water and they had a flash-firing system worked out where they could get up steam in less than half a minute ... I asked them how they solved the water problem and Burns said to me, "Well, we just made the whole body one big radiator, full of tubes...
...Caravan theatre preaches well; the use of flash-back and rhythm punctuate Brecht's main points. The Caravan even does us the dubious favor of placing Brecht's play in contemporary perspective; the performance begins with a "prologue by an actor," setting our own world's good guys against the bad, showing the present relevance of Brecht's rule. (Penn-Central executives get light jail terms for stealing thousands; George Jackson gets killed for stealing seventy dollars). The Caravan performance is only adequate; Aili Singer as Langmann is vicious, and with precise line readings and movement completely dominates the stage...