Word: peeling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reunion that Pym unobtrusively begins to peel the layers from her characters. Arriving at the office, Letty notices that the two men have spread themselves out, occupying the space that once held all four. She experiences again "the feeling of nothingness... as if she and Marcia had never existed." But her attention quickly shifts. "Looking around the room, her eyes lighted on a spider plant which she had brought one day and not bothered to take away when she left. It had proliferated; many little offshoots were now hanging down until they dangled over the radiator." Perceptions noted, then brushed...
...year ago the Carter Administration was preparing a proposal to tax capital gams at full ordinary-income rates, which would have meant a doubling of levies on many small and medium-size gains. Then Wisconsin Republican William Steiger, a panelist at the Time conference, introduced an amendment to peel the levy back to 25%, and to his own astonishment got a mighty bandwagon rolling. The House wrote into its tax bill a cut in maximum capital gains rates-though only...
Personal Injury Lawyer Lewis sought to try the case by the same negligence standard used in an ordinary whiplash suit. NBC should have foreseen that its movie might inspire violent crime, he maintained; therefore the network, like a homeowner who leaves a banana peel lying on his front stoop where someone could slip on it, should pay damages to the victim. Constitutional Lawyer Abrams, on the other hand, argued that his clients should be held liable only if the network actually intended to cause attacks like the one on Niemi...
...accent of a man raised in Stuttgart? His colleagues and adversaries are French too, but they cannot figure out why Clouseau talks that way or, mostly, what he is talking about. "Leu and order," he says, meaning what he has sworn to uphold; every sentence contains a verbal banana peel...
...reluctantly, the student takes the first step towards Decadency, Degeneracy, Perdition. She quietly unties her Adidas and proceeds to peel off her shoes, socks and sweaters, revealing her unhealthy, banana-colored skin. Having bravely ventured this far, she risks a glance at the other guilty ones. To her astonishment, Harvard beach is littered with uninhabited tennis shoes, crewneck sweaters and T-shirts--even with unread textbooks and blank paper passively but menacingly there. It appears people will do anything to feel the warm caress of the sun on their creepy, winter-whitened, fish-belly flesh. On her right, a young...