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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...
Walon Green, who directed the picture and shot a good portion of the photography as well, used microlenses and extreme slow motion to get awesome footage of mayflies living out their brief lives, of termites inside their intricate mound fashioned from mud and saliva, of a locust plague in Ethiopia, of a single drop of water killing an insect with its impact. Perhaps the most memorable sequence shows African driver ants. These sightless creatures instinctively use their bodies to form a carriage for their obese queen, and defend her by hurling themselves against attackers with suicidal ferocity. The viewer...
...have come here, today, this is the first time I really felt I understood what the word underground means. The bigness of education frightens me. I understand why radicals go underground. You know that song of Dylan's when he gets his degree at Princeton, Day of the Locust? I like that very much. That is the feeling...
...there is a tragedy in this "Fight of Champions," Joe Frazier is the Othello and the takers, that vast locust combine, play Iago. The prefight publicity has made it impossible for Frazier ever to be champ to black America and the rest of the world. Rather than revealing him as another black man of different convictions from Ali, the PR portrayed him as a vacuous white hope in blackface...
...when the helicopters come in low we can shoot at them in an almost horizontal line," he said. Soth might have been exaggerating his forces' efficiency. But in any case, it will be some time before the South Vietnamese will be able to fill the air with a locust-like swarm of 600 helicopters, as the U.S. did in the Lam Son offensive...