Word: relief
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...long and often agonizing story is hilariously funny. At times I fought my laughter, waiting guiltily for each new joke or comical incident, wondering who I was to laugh at the tragedy of mutilated minds, twisted psyches and lobotomized egos. In the book, laughter had come as relief from too much suffering, for both the characters and the reader, and accompanied the happier episodes of McMurphy's struggle against authority and self-surrender. On stage, the inmates become caricatures and the plot a rather lengthy bout with laughing...
...travels through the country. Broder pinpointed a paradox in the voters' mood: "We're not notably consistent in any respect. We want to keep the Russians and Chinese in their places, but we want to end the draft. We want the benefits of mass production techniques, but we want relief from the drudgery of assembly-line jobs...
...tour throughout the album, on songs like "Motorway," in lines like "I'm a Maximum Consumption, super-grade performer-High powered machine," or "Motorway food is the worst in the world,-You've never eaten food like you've eaten on the Motorway." He falls back on Hollywood for relief, for a perfect world, "Nobody's gonna travel second class-There'll be equality." Thematic confusion reigns as Davies stresses the problems of touring and the perfection of Hollywood while simultaneously reiterating his working class hero status...
...wages and building a new jail; two weeks ago, a prisoner escaped by simply bending his cell bars apart. Many states, cities and towns will use the money to cut property taxes. Though the Administration welcomes this move, which would ease pressure on Washington to provide tax relief, it is far from what revenue-sharing supporters in Congress hoped for. Atlanta will devote at least part of its $4.5 million to paring property taxes. Oregon will funnel all of its $22 million into aid for schools as a means of cutting local taxes...
...corn, and asphalt rather than asparagus. Massachusetts residents are presented with a solution: a proposal to tax agricultural and horticultural lands not on the fair market value (what it is worth to developers) but on the agricultural and horticultural value (what it is worth to the grower). The tax relief would apply to tracts larger than five acres that have been under cultivation for at least two years...