Word: oddness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...system can also produce odd results when the taxes on one home are compared with those of a dwelling just down the street. A number of communities tax houses on the basis of their original value. A grand old home might have lower taxes than a brand new house of lesser quality. Some districts, such as Cook County, Ill., and Fulton County, Ga., are attempting to eliminate the imbalance by taxing all homes at their current "fair market value," but then taxes explode and devastate longtime residents living on fixed incomes. Says Ren Wicks, 65, who, as a result...
Soon American Jewish publications began to take a friendly line. At a meeting in Denver in June, the editors of most of America's 130-odd Jewish weeklies adopted a resolution congratulating Begin on his election. The Los Angeles B'nai B'rith Messenger described him as "a worthy leader," while the Jewish Week & American Examiner, published in New York City, ran "Glimpses of Begin," a sympathetic report on his folksy personal side designed to counter the "terrorist" image. "We didn't feel any obligation to sell him," says Robert A. Cohn, editor of the biweekly...
Glittery-eyed fans of Anita Bryant may be excused at this point, but this very odd couple - the frail female nut and the overweight drag queen - really are lovable in their devotion to each other. As Robin blissfully makes up, Liza happily makes out - in the next room, with a cab driver. Soon Robin is over flowing onstage before an audience of cheering leather boys, and Liza is pregnant. Wretched excess continues as Robin heads for New York City to do his impersonations on the Great Gay Way. Liza, of course, is in labor. He is a smash...
...account, Decca made an odd sort of Communist. She drummed up attendance to party rallies with flame-colored flyers that read: CHICKEN DINNERS LIKE MOTHER USED TO MAKE. FREE-FLOWING LIQUOR. 20 BEAUTIFUL GIRLS 20. Whether investigating police brutality in Oakland in the '40s or leading a White Women's Delegation to Mississippi to appeal the case of convicted Rapist Willie McGee in 1951, Mitford the Marxist seemed to operate with a touch of what she called "high jinks." Missions might be missions, but why could they not also be "a thrilling adventure," or at least "a welcome...
...legend goes: nothing kills America's culture heroes as quickly and surely as success. Presley burnt himself out, as if on schedule. He had been thirsty for glory. Born in Tupelo, Miss., he was an only child whose parents scraped along on odd jobs until the family moved to Memphis when Elvis was 13. He was fanatically and unabashedly devoted to his mother. He was buried near her after the kind of awful, agonized public wake that attended the passing of Rudolph Valentino and Judy Garland. Eighty thousand fans jammed the street outside his Memphis mansion, Graceland, hoping...