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...form of block grants of $5,000 per student. In a state where local control is taken for granted, such a change would be galling enough. But the law has made it nearly impossible for well-off towns to maintain their school quality by raising money locally. The 41 "gold" towns have been told they must share all the property-tax revenue they raise (no matter how much) with 211 "receiver" towns--giving away in many places as much as 60[cents]to 70[cents] of every dollar...
...raise taxes while cutting school budgets, eliminating programs and laying off teachers, three of them--Dover, Plymouth and Searsburg--are refusing to send their taxes to Montpelier. At least three other towns are talking about joining the rebellion. In Manchester, volunteer firefighters are trying to persuade locals and other gold towns to join the revolt. And on both sides of the battle, people are worried that the fabric of Vermont is fraying for good. Says anti-Act 60 lobbyist Bob Stannard: "This is civil...
...crepe--not just the plainer jersey suits and "little black dresses" that made her famous. But probably the single element that most ensured Chanel's being remembered, even when it would have been easier to write her off, is not a piece of clothing but a form of liquid gold--Chanel No. 5, in its Art Deco bottle, which was launched in 1923. It was the first perfume to bear a designer's name...
...them. For 13 years, he resisted talking pictures, launched with The Jazz Singer in 1927. Even then, the talkies he made, among them the masterpieces The Great Dictator (1940), Monsieur Verdoux (1947) and Limelight (1952), were daringly far-flung variations on his greatest silent films, The Kid (1921), The Gold Rush (1925), The Circus (1928) and City Lights...
...must know that. Know the fact, or the music, or the truth inside the mythology, spun from roots by his rough magic into cloth of gold, into songs that are the shifting, stormy center of American popular music in the second part of the very century when the music was invented...