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...cutback in these funds, which total $41 billion this fiscal year. If the grants are clipped appreciably, many communities might have to start raising taxes within a year or two. For all the benefits of revenue sharing, it is highly doubtful that it can effectively substitute for the patchwork of grants in meeting the nation's public needs...
...taxes are the only levies that most Americans vote on directly, and U.S. communities have been turning down increases at nearly twice the rate of five years ago. Last August, the California Supreme Court declared local property taxes unconstitutional-but for quite another reason (TIME, Sept. 13). The financial patchwork, the court said, allows communities with a high tax base to offer their children a richer education than poor communities-and to pay a smaller share of their income to do it. The quality of a child's education, said the court, should not depend on "the wealth...
...movie is a patchwork of pop culture - its title derived from a Tim Buckley tune, its sound track laden with song fragments and snippets of news broadcasts, its pastel photography reminiscent of countless TV commercials. Monte Hellman, director of Two-Lane Blacktop, even appears in a cameo role. All this does not amount to much more than another episode of Sunset Strip angst, but there are reassuring indications throughout that Director James Frawley and Scenarist Floyd Mutrux are capable of better work...
...longer adequate for even the plainest Jane: now the enthusiast can saunter into an expensive boutique like New York City's Billingsley, be interviewed by freelance Costume Designer Linda Sampson, hand her a battered set of denims and return two weeks later to pick up a sort of patchwork personality portrait, sewn together by Linda for $200 or so. Customers do not seem to worry that her interpretations of their personalities will be too freaky. "Basically," she says, "people will wear anything they can get away with." New Yorker Jann Johnson, 24, carries the idea a logical step further...
There is of course great hope for the Cubans. The era of patchwork reforms must soon end; this reality is staring in Castro's face. At the end of last year's sugar harvest, Fidel gave a humble, highly self-critical speech. Hopefully he will come to recognize in his revaluation that the people through their own institutions must control their own existence...