Word: labyrinthitis
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...LEGAL LABYRINTH...
Thus begins Qiu Ju's sad pilgrimage through the endless labyrinth of the Chinese bureaucracy. She petitions the People's District This and the Revolutionary Intermediate That. She seeks the help of a professional letter writer, who promises to destroy the village chief by writing a "merciless" letter. (He tells Qiu Ju he's written six of these; two of the recipients were subsequently shot, he says, and four got life sentences.) To impress the officials, Qiu Ju gives them fruit and buys an ill-fitting striped jacket that unfortunately makes her look even more like a hick chick from...
...Kronauer Space--a cramped, dingy, dark and dank recess somewhere off the vibrant labyrinth of the Adams House tunnels--provides the ideal stage for Jean Genet's Deathwatch, a play set during the 1940's in a cell-block of an unspecified French prison. Genet's drama percolates with modernist tensions of alienation, violence, passion and, of course, nihilism. These tensions play themselves out within the network of complicated relationships which inevitably arise when you cram three male convicts into a dark cell in the basement of Adams House...
Desperate for funds, unable to get income or corporate taxes through the labyrinth of the constitution, Clinton tried to build badly needed roads with new-car registration and license fees. The costs of this angered small farmers in the key swing counties, who have a heavy turnover in junky cars and trucks, each change now entailing a higher registration...
They library labyrinth may be difficult to master, and it's easy to lose track of time when dusty pages beckon from all sides. Occasionally, legend goes, an unfortunate lost student is forced to spend a night among the volumes of forgotten lore...