Word: grossness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Other segments demonstrate the highly developed technique of the gross-out, featuring copious vomit, blood, genitals, and disembodied organs ("Can we have your liver, then?") They mesh oddly with the more detached, sardonic skits which are this film's major departure from previous technique. The knack for inspired nonsense remains--no other sensibility could mock Catholicism through the spectacle of rows of nuns. Busby-Berkeley-style, caroling that "Every sperm is sacred." But the addition of an explicit theme quiets the ridiculous proceedings somewhat, leading the film to a previously avoided mass-appeal glossiness. Distributed through Universal Pictures, Meaning...
...fraternity later denied any wrongdoing and in a prepared statement called the findings of the university's investigation "a collection of gross exaggerations, malicious fabrications and unsubstantiated judgements...
...course of the talks, she was amazed to hear an IRS employee tell her on the phone, "Frankly, my dear, nobody reports tips." She never did so again. Starting this year, however, restaurant owners who have ten or more full-time employees must withhold 8% of gross sales as an estimated tax on tips, and the result, says Rachel, is "fury...
...lore of tax collecting, there is nothing more enduring than the image of the wily French farmer hiding his earnings in his mattress or the Italian maintaining a separate set of books to deceive the state treasury. The stereotype is at best only partly true. As a percentage of gross domestic product, European taxes are substantially greater than those...
When one compares the major economies, those who pay the least are not the Europeans but the Japanese. Their total tax payments amount to only 26.1% of gross domestic product, and the Japanese resist even those with tenacity and skill. They still maintain a largely cash economy (checks are almost unknown), particularly at the retail level, where Japan has about 100,000 more stores than...