Word: locusts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...waist, she knots it around her throat, pulls it tight, then falls to the ground in a lifeless swoon, her hair spilling in an orange cloud over her crimson robes. On a balcony overhead, a chorus splits the air with a rising lament-a sort of aural locust swarm-followed by a series of immense, loud gong-tones...
EXETER. Marjoe 1:30, 3:05, 4:45, 6:25, 8:05, 9:45; The Locust...
...Locust, Bow, Bridge...
Raymond Chandler knew the territory well, Nathanael West wrote of it brilliantly in The Day of the Locust, but no one has recently taken the measure of the neon void with such savage precision as Joan Didion. Play It As It Lays was a novel about a young actress, Maria Wyeth, crumbling into the pieces of a psychic jigsaw. Didion drew the Southern California landscape with poisonous accuracy, using its shifting scenes to delineate states of an increasingly troubled mind...
Greater Gap. Though New York is not facing an immediate court case, the commission investigated the same kind of financial disparities that have troubled courts in other states. For example: Long Island's North Shore town of Locust Valley, which has expensive homes and relatively few of them, taxes itself at a rate of $22.70 per $1,000 of its property's market value. That raises enough money to provide $1,722 for each child. Ten miles away, Levittown's blue-collar citizens pay school taxes of $35.60 per $1,000, but because Levittown is more densely...