Word: owing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...which led Joe Restic, he of the multiflex offense and the politician's inclination, to remark, in reference to the Big Red, "We owe them one. Just taking that trip to Ithaca is worth a victory...
...tempted to ask whether ghetto blacks and hispanics--who live in a world of burnt-out buildings, dismal employment prospects, and a welfare system that breaks up families and degrades recipients--really owe much allegiance to the moral system espoused by white intellectuals like Decter who live on the West Side by the river. How can she argue the looters are not angry at, not frustrated by the society that keeps them in the ghetto--particularly when she's never talked to them...
...film's clumsiness as well-intentioned amateurism, but Brooks' intentions are as deplorable as his technique. With the exception of Conn's honestly maudlin performance, every element of You Light Up My Life is cynically conceived; the film's inspirational message and big emotional moments owe more to recent hit movies than they do to any human reality. If Brooks has any genuine passion, it's apparent only when he shamelessly stops his film dead to plug the five ballads he has composed for the sound track. The sentiments in the songs are all canned...
...ease. Almost singlehanded she created the revival of bel canto. It was because of her voice and presence that Norma and I Puritani are now popular after decades of neglect. For this one accomplishment, hordes of opera lovers, as well as Sopranos Joan Sutherland, Montserrat Caballe and Sills herself, owe Callas a lasting debt. And she acted these roles with a devouring intensity that might do justice to Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf...
...taxes that the company has already paid on its profits. A highly oversimplified example of the basic idea: a person who owned 1% of the shares in a company that paid $100,000 in taxes on its profits would subtract $1,000 from the tax that he otherwise would owe on his dividends. Yet there are many questions, and how this change would work out in practice is most unclear...