Word: odd
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Plenty of states pass out tax breaks, of course, even to polluters whose mess taxpayers must later clean up. But Louisiana's incentive program has an odd twist: the tax abatements are intended to help start-up businesses. The purpose of the industrial-tax-exemption program, in the state's own words, is to offer "to industry certain tax benefits at the most critical stage of any business endeavor--the beginning...
...stories, however, there is one that is set quite apart from the rest, written without the subtle humor or the odd dialogue; it's clearly torn from real life. In the cumbersomely title "People Like That are the Only People Here: Canonical Babbling in Peed Onk," a couple undergo the horrific experience of discovering and dealing with cancer in their infant son. Subversively poignant in its subtle bitterness and desperate hope, the story draws the reader into a nightmare world of clean rooms. IV's N-G tubes and veteran parents of sick children, parents weary and glass-eyed...
...slightly worse with the great C minor Nocturne, Op. 48, at a tempo that sapped its strength. This is one of the few performances I can think of where the chordal middle section was actually more interesting than its famous neighbors. The left hand would disappear and reemerge at odd, disjunct moments, and there was no sense of heightening at the return of the first theme in its slick new clothes...
...developing cities posed difficult obstacles for him. In the German Museum of Decorative Arts, a zoning restriction which divided the building into five-story and seven-story sections led to the inclusion of a large, delineated window (filled with space not glass) on one side of the building. This odd appendage later evolved into a characteristic feature of the design and symbol of the museum. His 1986 Stadthaus in Ulm, Germany was only built after a tenth referendum finally approved its construction. The building was intended to replace an area used for parking in front of the historic Gothic cathedral...
...feels okay. I like the part where they trace you. It's an odd kind of celebrity...