Word: relief
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...movie scene, turns out to be much less engaging in execution than it is as an idea. Car Wash does suggest, though, that there are unsuspected film possibilities in observing closely the daily lives of ordinary black people. Despite the movie's devitalizing casualness, it is a relief to see urban blacks neither as superstuds nor as sociological case studies. One only wishes that Car Wash fully lived up to its good intentions...
Harvard dining halls were less crowded than usual last night because 1822 students skipped dinner to raise money for the Oxford Committee for Famine Relief (Oxfam), an international group that sponsors relief and development projects in the Third World...
...studied different relief groups and Oxfam was the best," he said...
Such pessimism would lose its shock value through sheer repitition were it not for the relief afforded by glittering and--to Western readers--unusual cantos like "The King in the Air," a poem somewhat closer to the vivid but unemotional imagery of the neo-classical tradition...
...financing of local schools from the revenue obtained by the state's local property tax. Instead, citizens would pay an amount equal to a percentage of their federal income tax to support the school system. Particular aspects of the bill appeal naturally to both conservatives, who support property tax relief and liberals, who feel the new local income tax would be more equitable...