Word: indexes
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Well they might. R.R.P. is a remarkable index of new-age creeds. In the Church of Satan, worship equipment includes candles, a bell, a chalice, elixir, a sword, a gong, parchment and "a model phallus." (Not that Army chaplains are likely to have to supply them, since ritual secrecy is also part of Satanism.) There is also the Native American Church, an Indian group that has won court approval to get high on peyote during weekly or monthly rituals that run all night. The Army does not state whether the peyote rites must end in time for reveille...
Alan Greenspan, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers under Gerald Ford, cites another benefit: "Because property taxes are a component of the consumer price index, and because California property taxes are such a large portion of the national total, the proposition will cut the index by .2% in December-say, from an inflation rate...
...month killing spree. But they haven't done much of a service, either: the book reads more like a dime-store cheapie than a presumably classy $10 hardback, and what goes between those hard covers is enough to make you yearn for the good old days, when the Papal Index kept the trash in the barrels and out of the bookstores. Breslin and Schaap offer little more than a Dragnet-style, names-have-been-changed-to-protect-the-innocent-and-save-us-from-a-lawsuit rundown of the murders, with a little sex and some ethnic name-calling thrown...
...high index is not necessarily a bad index," he explains nonchalantly, adding that he sees no improvement in the months ahead. As if to ensure that prophecy, he has instructed officials to dismantle one of France's most entrenched institutions: the system of 30,000 decrees that since 1945 has controlled the price of almost all manufactured goods, from trucks to biscuits. This bombshell, more over, is hitting as the economy is still absorbing the impact of another recent Barre move: increases of up to 20% in the prices of natural gas, electricity, rail tickets and other government-supplied...
Given the speed with which Oxford anthologies become holy writ, Amis' peculiarities are regrettable. It is impossible, though, to pull a long face at his collection. The poems he assembles are pleasing, instructive and full of laughter. Even the index of first lines is surreally madcap. Take the sad little story told in the first five...