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...stark, aggressive, manipulative, wheedling, insatiable-has found no more assiduous celebrators than the songwriting team of John Kander and Fred Ebb. In Cabaret, Chicago, Woman of the Year and the movie New York, New York, they have composed dozens of brassy ballads for gutsy ladies staking out their parcel of asphalt turf. No raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens for these guys. Kander's tunes have the catchy dissonance of a Broadway traffic snarl just before show time; violins cower mutely in the pit while the percussion sets a tempo of edgy energy and the horns bleat like...
...earnest voice on the telephone described the offer as a sure thing. By sending $8,784 to the U.S. Oil and Gas Corp. in Coral Gables, Fla., the customer would be guaranteed-in writing-to win a lease worth $25,000 for the oil and gas rights on a parcel of U.S. Government land. Between September 1982 and June 1983, some 66,000 people drew down savings and took out loans to send the company money...
...1970s a similar protest arose over the proposed John F. Kennedy Memorial Library, which would have been built on the same site formerly known as Parcel ib. Because of community pressure the library site was moved to Columbia point in Boston...
...thesis is that baseball's integration process closely mirrored the integration process as a whole across the United States over the next two decades. More than that, integration in baseball had a direct effect, Tygiel argues, on the efforts to desegregate society in general--acting as part and parcel of the forces breaking down old Southern mores...
...state license from the department of revenue. Still more curious, the law that went into effect last month requires that an official, yellow $10 tax stamp be stuck to every 1-oz. bag of marijuana sold, and a $125 blue stamp to each 1-oz. parcel of cocaine (or any other illegal drug). What is more, the revenuers must keep the names of all licensees confidential; otherwise the statute would violate the constitutional protection against selfincrimination...