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...deliver excess tax dollars back to the taxpayer. But all of that can be readily granted without committing fiscal hara-kiri." To John Petersen, an official of the Municipal Finance Officers Association, a group that views virtually any tax cut as a form of harakiri, Proposition 13 is "a Frankenstein, a green hulk emerging from the swamps of the West...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sound and Fury over Taxes | 6/19/1978 | See Source »

...year-old father of Proposition 13, basking in his first victory in a lifetime of attacking free-spending public officials, is no Frankenstein, but is a self-defined "pain in the ass. You gotta be to get these people to listen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sound and Fury over Taxes | 6/19/1978 | See Source »

...Frankenstein, Who used carnal violence toward

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Days of Whine and Roses | 6/12/1978 | See Source »

Film: Young Frankenstein, Levin Ballroom, 7:30 and 10 pm, admission...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BRANDEIS | 5/4/1978 | See Source »

...associates at the institute, Dr. Montague and Nurse Diesel, played by two Brooks regulars, Harvey Korman and Cloris Leachman. Korman, as the neurotic, weak-willed doctor, seems to be trapped in reruns of the Carol Burnett Show. Leachman repeats her role as Frau Blucher in Young Frankenstein. Looking for all the world like a wrestler and sporting a pair of somehow dangerous-looking breasts, Nurse Diesel cruelly controls the place, running it the way she dominates her lover. Dr. Montague, whom she beats every night. Believe it or not, the bondage scene is actually funny. Diesel and Montague apparently trap...

Author: By Andrew Multer, | Title: Standard Anxiety | 4/3/1978 | See Source »

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