Word: relief
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...seems a bit much to bear until Pippin's grandmother, Berthe, provides the necessary comic relief. Berthe, played brilliantly by Thelam Carpenter, is a vivacious, sassy old lady who gets up to sing her jazzy number after excoriating the men's war games. "Men and their wars! Sometimes I think men raise flags when they can't get anything else...
...Federal Farm Bureau, the largest private farm organization, would augment the government's proposals with relief from federal regulation and more liberalized credit. Neither the Agriculture Department's nor the Bureau's suggestions would solve the farmers' problem, though. The farmers don't want to see parity evolve on its own. The evolution would be too time-consuming, and would not necessarily succeed. Instead, they want parity immediately--and they plan...
While most used their free time to relax and enjoy themselves, some students volunteered their services in Boston and Cambridge hospitals and relief centers...
Everyone take a deep breath, and exhale slowly with a long sigh of relief. Amid all sorts of doubts and pessimism, the Harvard hockey team bumped off an optimistic and upstart Northeastern squad at 0:53 of overtime last night on Gene Purdy's heartstopper...
...raunchy comic relief there is Lavra (Lillian Evans), the self-styled former "playgirl of Moscow" from whom a few generous swigs of vodka can elicit a tipsy ode to the joys of sex. Her opposite number is prim, spartan Iva (Lenore Har ris), a dance-exercise buff who seems to revel in single blessedness until, in a passionate and poignant outburst, she reveals its lonely curse...